Press

28 February 2025

Quietroom, the insight-led communications consultancy, has today released a free one-page explainer on Irish auto enrolment, designed to help employers, advisers and pension professionals communicate the upcoming My Future Fund scheme in clear, accessible language.

The guide clearly explains the key features of the new retirement savings scheme launching on 30 September 2025, including eligibility criteria, contribution levels, opt-out provisions, and the government's matching contribution structure.

Simon Grover, Director at Quietroom, said:

"With auto enrolment set to transform Ireland's pension landscape, we wanted to create a resource that makes this complex topic easy to understand for everyone. Many employees will be saving into a workplace pension for the first time, and we know from our experience in the UK that clear communication is essential for this implementation to go well."

The concise explainer covers:

• eligibility requirements for automatic enrolment
• how contributions work and how they will increase over time
• the combined contribution structure (employee, employer and government)
• options for pausing or stopping contributions
• when and how savers can access their savings

Quietroom, based in London, has substantial experience in the Irish pensions market, having worked with major providers and organisations including Prudential, Mercer, the Pensions Authority, Bank of Ireland and Irish Life.

The auto enrolment guide is freely available for use by HR departments, pension providers, financial advisers, employers, and industry bodies to support their communications around the My Future Fund initiative.

The guide is available for download at quietroom.co.uk/ready-made-comms

25 June 2024

Russ Hope has been promoted to director. The move coincides with the appointment of two new hires to the growing Quietroom team.

Russ joined Quietroom in 2013. In recent years, he has broadened the consultancy’s work to take in journeys, experiences and digital tools, alongside traditional communications. He’s also been instrumental in growing Quietroom’s capability, taking the best from emerging disciplines like content design and bringing that thinking to Quietroom’s clients.

In addition to Russ’ promotion Quietroom has also recently appointed Vedika Maheshwari to the position of Sales and Marketing Executive, while Jaspal Gill joins as Finance Manager.

Chloe Taylor, CEO at Quietroom, said:

“We’re excited to have created a new role for Quietroom that sharpens the quality of our thinking and broadens the scope of what we deliver for our clients. Russ knows our business and our clients intimately. But he’s also plugged into what’s happening outside pensions, investment and insurance. That means he can bring cutting-edge thinking from other industries to help us find better solutions to our clients’ problems. I’d like to congratulate him and to extend a warm welcome to Vedika and Jaspal.”

5 March 2024

Quietroom, the insight-led communications consultancy, has today published a new video shedding light on the often overlooked struggles faced by women in understanding pension communications, ultimately impacting their retirement savings.

Timed to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March, Quietroom’s video shares the personal yet all-too-common challenges faced by women. Through first-person interviews, the video sheds light on issues ranging from maternity leave, unpaid caring roles and divorce, highlighting the diverse struggles experienced by women in saving for their retirement.

Quietroom senior writer Isla MacFarlane said:

“The issue of closing the gender pensions gap has been a key concern within the industry for some years now. Recent research by the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) suggests the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. After all, we’re still waiting for the government to implement the conclusions of the 2017 auto-enrolment review which will help address some of the issues.

“However, this is affecting people now. We wanted to highlight women’s personal stories and bring their challenges to life. Their stories underscore the need for pension providers to broaden their communications beyond the typically linear career path of men. Women's journeys often deviate from this trajectory: name changes due to marriage or divorce complicate access to pension pots, inflexible contribution options during maternity leave, and caregiving responsibilities disrupt pension savings, whether for their children or ageing parents.

“These stories poignantly illustrate the obstacles women encounter in preparing for retirement. We need to get better at communicating with members across all stages of saving, but above all, we need to have a system that delivers for everyone.”

11 October 2023

Today we announced the appointment of our first Chief Executive Officer, Chloe Taylor. Chloe will take up her new role in January 2024.

Quietroom makes this change as we look to grow and cement our position as the leading independent communications consultancy in pensions, investment and insurance.

Download the full press release (PDF)

19 September 2023

Quietroom and the UK’s biggest DB pension schemes have launched a free toolkit of member-tested communications to help all schemes talk to members about GMP equalisation. Read the  coverage from Corporate Adviser and download the toolkit from GMPeasy.

11 August 2023

Darren Philp and Nico Aspinall of the Value For Money podcast chat to Quietroom co-founder and actor Vincent Franklin about investment, the state pension, his acting career and what value for money means to him.

Listen to the podcast

11 January 2023

Quietroom today launched a suite of model buyout comms to help defined benefit schemes going through this process communicate effectively with their members.

The suite has been developed by Quietroom experts and is designed to take scheme members through the whole buyout journey – from the first announcement to scheme wind-up. The communications have all been tested and refined in light of member feedback and have been legally reviewed, so achieve regulatory compliance. All schemes need to do is enter their details and get sign-off internally before they send the letters to members.

Download buyout comms press release (PDF)