Scottish Widows adds 289,000 members to build workplace market presence
Scottish Widows’ workplace pension assets hit £68bn at the end of 2020, comprising almost half of its total £113bn of open book assets under administration.
The provider reported 289,000 new members joined across its workplace schemes in 2020, along with 245 new schemes, taking its total membership to 3.5 million and total employers to 24,000. Overall, it...
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