Smart Pension gives savers power to up contributions with Amazon Alexa

Available to 80,000 employers

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An interactive and hands-free technology that allows savers to track how much they have invested into their retirement pots has been launched by Smart Pension.

The Smart Pension ‘skill' has been made available free to some 80,000 employers and almost half a million members, and can be accessed on Amazon's Echo family of home hub smart speaker devices (Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Spot and Echo Show) via the skills feature or directly via the Alexa phone and tablet app. The incentive behind the platform was to create technology to enable savers to see all of their retirement pots in one place at the same time, giving them a greater awareness of their assets and how to plan for their retirement. This means Smart Pension members will be able to stay up...

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