William Annison

FULL BIOGRAPHY

William is a vastly experienced Employee Benefits Expert having spent 25 years in this specialised field. William advises employers on a range of benefits that are available to their employees that they may or may not have in place.

Working on a one to one basis or conducting group presentations, William advises on workplace pension schemes, implementing salary exchange for pensions, auto enrolment, group life insurance, group income protection, private medical insurance, critical illness, cash plans and dental plans. By being independent, the advice is impartial and William has access to the full range of employee benefits available on the market. William enables companies to optimise these benefits which has a positive effect on employees and employers alike.

Financial wellbeing is important because many people’s relationship to money is poor. There is often a lot of anxiety and worry and too often decisions are taken based on an emotional response rather than fact. It may be that there is a knowledge gap, a fear of change or a fear of making the wrong decision that stops us taking even small steps towards better financial health.

It could be that we think we know mare than we actually do, which is also unhelpful.

Through presentations either online or in person and through one to one meetings we ask people to challenge their own attitudes and views and provide them with trusted sources of correct information to begin taking the steps to help them feel in control. We provide supporting documents to help after these sessions.

This work has become of more interest to employers because of the cost of living increases. Many people go to work and seem happy and engaged when you speak to them. However, it doesn’t take much of a conversation before you’ll find that this is not the case. We meet people working for businesses who are not feeling great and their employers have no idea of the issues and pressures they are dealing with in their personal life that can affect their decision making and their work.

We help people to be better with money, worry less and feel in control.

With the working landscaped changed irreversibly since the pandemic, employees now have greater power than before and are being more selective when deciding where to work. Across the board companies have increased the benefits they offer and there has been a big increase in the number of companies offering private medical insurance.

SME’s generally can do much better with the arrangement of what they offer. It doesn’t have to cost the earth or take too long to organise, but the impact for employees and therefore employer can be significant.