Better Technology, Better Retirement Savings

Explore the potential of digital tools and behavioral approaches to improve retirement savings outcomes in this 59-minute webinar recording from The Aspen Institute's Financial Security Program and Future of Work Initiative. Delve into the impacts of language, defaults, and design on retirement savings, especially for workers struggling to save, and discover how digital technology can enhance these aspects. Learn about opportunities to automate "next dollar" decision-making, helping people manage competing financial priorities. Understand the importance of balancing compliance and innovation for worker financial security, and consider approaches to ensure fair, inclusive, and equitable financial security outcomes in a digitally driven world. Gain insights from featured speakers, including experts from Carnegie Mellon University, McKinsey, Manifest, and Cognizant Digital Experience, as they discuss topics such as user experience, reducing account friction, regulation, auto-enrollment, and discrimination rules in retirement savings programs.

Introduction
Why this conversation matters
Design matters
Technology and apps
Stephanie
The Village
User Experience
Reducing Account Friction
Regulation
The Future
Auto Enroll vs Auto Escalat
Would you be on board with revising the discrimination rules
Questions from the audience
Final thoughts