1. Financial Wellness with HelloWallet
Personalized Financial Guidance for Your Employees & Improved Benefit Program Outcomes for Your Company
Best in Class Financial Wellness Application
We (Vanguard) have partnered with HelloWallet, a financial wellness service, to help your employees save more for retirement by addressing the money pressures and behaviors that stand in their way. HelloWallet is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that provides a web and mobile financial wellness application designed to help your employees become more engaged in managing their finances.
For Your Employees: HelloWallet provides personalized, unbiased guidance to individuals on managing their debt, spending wisely, and maximizing your company benefits.
For Your Company: HelloWallet provides aggregated data about the holistic needs of your workforce - enabling you to measure and improve compensation and benefit program outcomes.
HelloWallet is being recognized in the industry for its best in class application and has won a number of awards including a Webby for “Best Financial Services Website.” HelloWallet customers are also being awarded for innovation and excellence – most recently, a customer received an Innovator Award from Pensions and Investments for their unique approach to financial wellness.
The HelloWallet offer, through Vanguard’s partnership, you will give you access to:
Preferential HelloWallet pricing*
A co-developed employee experience
A comprehensive package of financial tools for your employees
*$50 per subscription, per year. A minimum of 500 subscriptions, or the equivalent revenue commitment of $25,000 per employer, is a requirement to add HelloWallet.
Exclusive Offer through Vanguard

2. HelloWallet Delivers a “Win-Win”
For Employees
For Companies
Unbiased financial guidance to budget, plan, and increase prosperity
Drives increased readiness for consumer driven Benefits
Connects with Benefits best suited to individual needs (401(k), HSA, FSA, Insurance)
HelloWallet delivers a win for employees and a win for companies. In addition to personalized, unbiased financial guidance, HelloWallet increases employee readiness for consumer driven Benefits and helps them connect with the Benefits that are best suited to their individual needs.
For companies, HelloWallet provides new data intelligence about the holistic needs of employees which allows them to better align their Total Rewards investments. This data enables companies to more accurately measure and realize Benefits ROI and improve their programs accordingly.
New data intelligence about the holistic needs of employees to better align Total Rewards investments
ROI realized in the form of cost savings and program improvement outcomes

3. Measurable Program and Business Outcomes
Primary Measurable Program Impacts
Focusing on Program Value Drivers
Increase Savings in Health and Retirement Programs
Increase Retirement Readiness
Reduce Leakage in Retirement Programs
Improve employees financial health
Improve ability of workers to manage consumer driven benefits
Primary Workforce and Benefit Program Insights
HelloWallet is fueled by data which allows companies to measure programs more effectively and drive business outcomes. With financial data pertaining to valuable topics like employee health spending and retirement readiness, HelloWallet customers can more easily define compensation and benefit program success metrics. The combination of rich workforce data and clear program success metrics allows companies to focus on program improvement and impact.
Measurable impacts that HelloWallet strives for include:
Increased financial health and awareness among workers
Increased savings in health and retirement programs and decreased retirement plan leakage
Improvement in workforce ability to manage consumer driven benefits
Learn the financial health profile of your workforce, and barriers to consumer driven plan adoption and success
Drive expanded, data-driven decision making around 401k, health, and lifestyle Benefits
Align benefit spending with benefit needs

4. Thought Leadership in Workforce Behavior Change
HelloWallet applies research in behavioral economics and the science of decision making to help employees engage with their daily finances and Total Rewards packages. Steve Wendel, Principal Scientist at HelloWallet, recently released a book (Designing for Behavior Change) about designing products that change behavior.
The principles discussed in this book are found throughout HelloWallet’s application and relate to an ongoing development cycle comprised of 4 stages: 1) understanding, 2) discovering, 3) designing, and 4) refining. Using this model, features in the application are continually improved upon based on user testing, customer feedback, and data insights.

5. Data Driven Retirement & Wellness Insights
Debt Savers in Defined Contribution Plans
HelloWallet recently released a study showing how growing debt is derailing the plans of many for a stable retirement. Some key findings include:
HelloWallet is a thought leader in benefits research and has produced several white papers that reveal important wellness insights. In the most recent report, Debt Savers in Defined Contribution Plans, HelloWallet exposes that a large share of DC employees are accumulating debt at a faster rate than retirement savings. HelloWallet’s application aims to ameliorate such problematic trends. This white paper was mentioned in major news sources from the Washington Post to NBC News.

6. Financial Wellness is a Priority for Your Peers
76%
of companies are looking to expand their focus on financial well-being in 2014. “
Such benefits are also intended to help employees save better so they can actually retire, making for a younger – and less costly – workforce.”
— The Washington Post
Financial Wellness is becoming increasingly relevant in the marketplace and it is a priority for your peers. 76% of companies are somewhat or very likely to expand their focus on the financial well-being of their employees in Employers are no longer JUST concerned with 401(k) participation alone, but are shifting to help workers achieve holistic financial wellness and make the most of their paychecks.
*76% statistic comes from Aon Hewitt 2014 Hot Topics in Retirement survey report