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Professional Pensions: Admin & Data Forum 2023
2023-03-15
After a busy year last year, 2023 is not an exception for admin and data. With the launch of the Pensions Dashboard on the horizon, many schemes worry that their data will not be up to scratch. With accuracy of data also reliant on engagement from members, if members aren’t engaged with schemes, confidence to update member records will be lacking.
Quality of admin and data is also a concern for schemes approaching buyout too. Following the market turbulence in October 2022, some schemes were in a much better buyout position than before. Whilst once believing they had five to ten years to prepare, some now only have eighteen months. Similarly, more schemes will have begun thinking about GMP equalisation after doing rectification. But is our attention invested more on Dashboards than resolving the data hurdles from GMPE?

SPS Local Authority Pension Fund Investment: Current Issues Update
2023-03-14 | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
This conference, designed for representatives of local authority funds and pools, seeks to explore a variety of investment strategies/solutions, both public and private, designed to best help local authority pension funds to meet their specific investment requirements and stewardship responsibilities, such as: delivering growth; providing income; managing cashflows; improving returns, managing risk and climate change & responsible investment obligations.

SPS: Annual Bond Investment Strategies for Pension Funds
2023-01-12 09:00 - 15:30 UTC | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
This conference is for pension investment teams and trustees both in the public and private sector and is free to attend. As an Annual event, it helps kick off the year for bond investors with topical, high quality investment information. If you haven’t already received an invitation please click “request an invite” below.
As Bonds and LDI hit the limelight with dramatic changes to pension funds’ investment and funding environment, this event will provide a chance to consider fixed income investment strategies once the dust has settled.
Expert speakers from investment managers, consultants, the regulator and pension funds themselves lead the debate. Plus our Q&A sessions hosted by investors encourage audience engagement and allow you to find out more about certain topics or have the chance to ask the questions that concern you. You’ll also have the opportunity to discuss issues with your peers and the speakers during the breaks.

SPS Private Market Investors’ Annual Seminar
2022-12-06 08:30 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference will provide an update on topical issues affecting private market investments, examining the challenges facing the sector and factors that institutional investors, including pension funds and family offices should consider when investing. We aim to incorporate discussion of practical issues such as fees, transparency, liquidity, benchmarking, regulation, IT developments, ESG compliance as well as analysis of whether and how the inclusion of private market strategies in portfolios before the pandemic helped or hindered schemes and if there are lessons to be learned.

Professional Pensions ESG Focus
2022-12-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
***2022 Event details coming soon***

SPS Annual Northern Investment Conference for Pension Funds (DB & DC)
2022-11-22 09:00 - 17:00 | Leeds, Park Plaza
This wide-ranging event will enable Northern based pension funds to review a range of investment and asset allocation strategies without having to travel to London. We seek to include approaches suitable for DB and/or DC pension funds that could help them to provide scheme specific goals such as targeted returns, income and diversification. We also aim to include consideration of global and local regulatory and economic impacts on investments as well as practical matters such as ESG compliance, cashflow, performance, cost, risk management and default and lifestyle strategies.

SPS Local Authority Pension Funds: ESG & Impact Investing
2022-11-16 09:00 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference will explore a range of sustainable/Impactful/ESG compliant investment options, both public and private, looking at how these can be integrated into the investment management processes of local authority pension funds and their investment pools. We seek to also consider issues such as the impact of regulatory, political and geopolitical pressures, transparency, fees, benchmarks, reporting, technology and performance measurement, as well as investment considerations specific to LGPS investors.

SPS Current Investment Issues for Pension Funds
2022-11-08 09:00 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
​This wide-ranging event aims to address the most pressing investment issues and challenges facing pension funds looking ahead to 2023. We seek to include strategies suitable for DB and/or DC pension funds that could help them to manage these issues, taking account of current and expected global and local regulatory and economic impacts, as well as investment considerations and practical matters such as ESG compliance, cashflow, performance, cost, risk management, default and lifestyle strategies.

Professional Pensions Investment Conference 2022
2022-11-02 09:00 - 16:30 | London
Butchers’ Hall, London
How unpredictable is the future? With a volatile market, Trustees are under more pressure than before. Keeping on top of market trends and meeting benefit demands to maintain member satisfaction is more important than ever. As an industry, we have seen equity down twenty percent, inflation at insanely high levels, and the cost of living is becoming increasingly unmanageable for members. Nonetheless, predicting the future ahead of us is easier said than done. So, how can we best prepare ourselves for an unclear future ahead?

SPS Property, Infrastructure & Real Asset Investment Strategies for Pension Funds
2022-10-05 09:00 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference will examine a range of property, infrastructure and real asset investment strategies and
explore the ways pension funds can use them to provide scheme specific goals such as stable and
sustainable returns, risk management and diversification. We will also consider how Brexit, the pandemic
and other systemic changes/shocks have impacted performance and prospects, as well reviewing some of
the key practical considerations such as liquidity, ESG compliance, access, cost and implementation issues.

Women in Pensions Awards 2022
2022-09-21 08:00 - 17:00 | London

Fiduciary 360
2022-09-20 17:00 - 23:30 | Online

SPS Alternative & Sustainable Investment Solutions for Pension Funds
2022-09-15 09:00 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference will examine a range of alternative investment strategies and discuss the different ways
pension funds can use these to help achieve scheme specific goals such as enhanced returns and
diversification. We seek to also include a review of how strategies both coped with and performed in the
recent past, both from a global and a local perspective, given the regulatory and economic impacts of events such as Brexit and the pandemic. We will also include consideration of practical issues such as governance, ESG compliance, liquidity, cost, access and implementation.

SPS Optimising Value from Bond Investments for Pension Funds
2022-09-01 08:30 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference will examine a range of bond and credit investment options designed to enable pension
funds to add value as well as to achieve specific goals such as improving returns, generating cash flows and reducing volatility. We seek to include analysis of how such goals performed under the extreme conditions of 2020 and if there are lessons to draw from this, as well as to consider the implication of practical issues such as future inflation, implementation, fees, transparency, ESG compliance, regulation, income, credit risk, liquidity, interest rates and geopolitical impacts.

SPS Investment Solutions & Cash Flow Management for Maturing Pension Funds
2022-07-07 09:00 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference seeks to examine a range of approaches to liability and cash flow management as well as
strategies designed to hedge or transfer risk. We also aim to consider other investment strategies suitable for mature funds in the current economic landscape, for example, alternative asset classes, instruments suitable for short- term cashflows, dynamic management of endgame strategies – including buy-ins, buy-outs, consolidators and superfunds, as well as practical issues like governance and ESG compliance.

PMI DC and Master Trust Symposium
2022-07-07 08:00 - 2022-07-08 17:00 | Online
This event will examine some of the most topical debates in the DC and Master Trust space, including ESG, appropriate governance and regulatory regimes for schemes, how to protect members as well as addressing policy concerns relating to small pots and generation DC.

PLSA Local Authority Conference
2022-07-04 08:00 - 2022-07-06 17:00 | De Vere Cotswold Waterpark, Gloucestershire
The PLSA Local Authority Conference is the largest of its kind dedicated to the Local Government Pension Scheme. It is attended by over 400 local authority officers, councillors, members of Local Pension Boards, admitted bodies and their advisers.
This event is returning to a face-to-face event again for Local Authority Conference 2022.
More details coming soon.

Sustainable Investment Festival 2022
2022-06-29 08:00 - 2022-06-30 17:00 | London
After the incredible success of the inaugural Sustainable Investment Festival, Incisive Media is delighted to announce that planning for the 2022 festival is underway, and we’re excited to be able to host in London as an in-person event.
The Sustainable Investment Festival is the only event that brings together fund selectors, financial advisers, pension consultants, trustees, and scheme managers, to help them better integrate ESG into their investment portfolios and provide solutions for clients and investors that want to make a positive impact on nature, society, and planet.

SPS Annual Irish Pension Fund Investment & Current Issues
2022-06-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Dublin
Aimed at Irish pension investors, this conference will examine a variety of investment strategies/solutions,
both public and private, discussing the opportunities and challenges associated with each in a post-Brexit,
post-pandemic economy. We seek to include consideration of a range of factors such as global and local
macroeconomic trends and policy, pension funds’ long-term funding objectives, performance, costs,
implementation, climate change/ESG requirements and any new developments in the Irish pension system.

Defined Contribution Conference 2022
2022-06-15 08:00 - 17:00 | London

SPS ESG & Impact Investment for Pension Funds
2022-06-09 08:30 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference will explore a range of ESG compliant investment options and impact investment strategies, both public and private, looking at how these can be integrated into pension funds’ investment management processes. We will seek to incorporate discussion of practical issues such as regulation, governance, transparency, fees and manager selection as well as progress towards benchmarking and measuring the effectiveness and financial performance of various sustainable strategies.

UK Pensions Awards
2022-06-08 19:00 - 23:30 | Hilton Park Lane, London
The UK Pensions Awards – now in their 25th year – remain the industry’s most prestigious accolades.
They shine the light on excellence and recognise the advisers, providers and investment managers that offer the highest level of innovation, performance and service to occupational pension schemes and their members, and have done the most to improve this over the past year.
The awards look at advisers and providers across 40 different categories and are rigorously judged by a panel of senior scheme managers, trustees and advisers.

PLSA Investment Conference
2022-05-25 08:00 - 2022-05-26 17:00 | Edinburgh
The PLSA Investment Conference is where CIOs, trustees, investment board members, pension managers, finance professionals and their advisers gain insight on the major trends and events affecting UK investors and markets. We bring the whole of the UK pensions investment chain together under one roof.
This event will be returning to a face-to-face event again for Investment Conference 2022.

Asset Management Awards 2022
2022-05-19 19:00 - 2022-05-20 19:00 | The Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych, London, WC2B 4DD
The Asset Management Awards are designed to recognise outstanding achievement in the UK/European institutional and retail asset management spaces. The objectives of the awards are to honour the outstanding professionals and firms in the many and varied fields of asset management, to recognise, celebrate, and promote best practice, to support continuing development, contribute towards raising the standards of asset management and to provide recognition for those who are providing effective support to the sector.

SPS Fiduciary Management & Investment Governance Solutions
2022-05-19 08:30 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This conference will examine a range of fiduciary management and governance solutions from both an
investment and a practical perspective, including matters such as performance, ESG requirements, custody, regulation, transparency, cost management, selection & monitoring of providers and the role of superfunds. We also seek to include analysis of whether, and how, the strategies in place before the COVID pandemic helped or hindered schemes and if there are lessons to be learned to provide future business resilience.

Professional Pensions Live 2022
2022-05-17 08:00 - 17:00 | Bishopsgate, 155 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3YD

SPS Investment Strategies for Pension Funds (DB & DC)
2022-05-10 08:30 - 17:00 | The Dilly, London
This event, one of the broadest in the SPS UK calendar will enable pension funds, both DB and DC, to review a range of investment strategies and the asset mix designed to help achieve their investment objectives. We aim to take account of global and local regulatory and economic impacts in a post-pandemic world, as well as appropriate scheme considerations such as cashflow requirements, performance, governance, cost, risk management, communications, implementation and climate change/ESG considerations.

DB & DC pensions management summit
2022-04-28 09:00 - 17:00 | Online
Pension schemes in the UK are entering a new era with both opportunities and challenges ahead. As they move from Covid-19 response to recovery, DB and DC schemes are operating in a landscape of expanding regulation, new expectations around climate and ESG action, changing demographics and innovative technologies. The macro environment for investment is also evolving with new avenues for allocations and yield opening up, against a background of ongoing economic uncertainty.

Pensions Age Spring Conference 2022
2022-04-28 | London Hilton Tower Bridge, London
The Pensions Age Spring Conference is a firm favourite in the UK pensions sector and offers pension funds and those working in the pensions sector the opportunity to learn and network alongside their peers at one of the most unprecedented times in UK pensions history.

Trustee Senate 2022
2022-04-21 08:00 - 2022-04-22 17:00 | London
