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Phoenix Group announces its Standard Life brand as the founding partner for the new Samaritans Training School

Stuart Mitchell

Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, announces that its Standard Life brand is the founding partner for a new initiative by Samaritans to train more volunteers. The Samaritans Training School is designed to help recruit and train more Samaritans listening volunteers so the charity can be there for more people who need their support.  Standard Life is making a donation which will allow Samaritans, the charity that is there for anyone who is struggling to cope, day and night, 365 days a year, to train approximately…

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Winner of Phoenix Group’s first Innovation Forum for customer engagement and financial well-being announced

Stuart Mitchell

Phoenix Group announces that Behavioural Finance is the inaugural winner of its first Innovation Forum. In collaboration with FinTech Scotland and TCS’s Co-Creation and Innovation Network (COIN), the Phoenix Innovation Forum invited FinTech enterprises to develop innovative new tools that improve financial wellbeing, engagement and make a genuine positive impact on customers’ lives. The Innovation Forum launched in May 2022 and seven companies were shortlisted to provide an initial pitch of their idea to an expert judging panel. In June, three companies were selected as finalists and assigned mentors from…

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Phoenix Group partners with Rest Less to promote 100 roles as part of age diverse recruitment strategy

Stuart Mitchell

Phoenix Group is partnering with Rest Less, a digital community for people in their 50s, 60s and beyond, as part of its age diverse recruitment strategy. The UK’s largest savings and retirement business is marking the start of its partnership with Rest Less by advertising for more than 100 roles across the business with the website. All the roles advertised on Rest Less focus on skills and behaviours, and are being offered on a flexible, hybrid, full and part-time working basis, giving greater flexibility for those who need to balance…

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Phoenix Group set near term carbon targets for £250bn of investments and call on industry to take serious carbon action

Stuart Mitchell

Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, today announces they have set both 2025 and 2030 carbon intensity reduction targets for their investment portfolio. These interim targets are part of Phoenix Group’s pathway to achieving net zero carbon for investments by 2050 in line with their science-based targets commitments, and are a key element of their overall approach to Responsible Investment. The new targets will reduce carbon emission intensity by at least 50% by 2030 and will apply to the £250bn of investments where Phoenix Group have…

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Phoenix Group announces new UK charity partnership with Samaritans and continues with its charity support during pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

Phoenix Group have announced a new two year UK charity partnership with Samaritans, the charity that is always there to help anyone who is struggling to cope, not just at the moment of crisis, but to help prevent crisis too. Phoenix colleagues were keen to focus their latest charity partnership on mental health and following a voting process, chose Samaritans as their partner and will be looking to raise funds while promoting awareness of mental health. The pandemic has had a profound impact on the nation’s mental health, with Samaritans…

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