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PLSA Investment Conference
2024-02-27 08:00 - 2024-02-29 17:00 UTC | EICC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The PLSA Investment Conference returns in 2024 with a new slot in the calendar, taking place 27-29 February at the EICC in Edinburgh.
As the first PLSA conference of the year, the Investment Conference 2024 will bring the full investment chain together to discuss big challenges and sector-specific issues, as well as sharing best practice and insights. Attend to stay up to date with the latest developments and thinking across a variety of session types and invaluable networking opportunities. Confirmed sessions include:

The macroeconomic outlook for the UK and the risks affecting the pension industry funds with Paul Johnson, Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The Government’s ambitions for pension schemes to invest in illiquids, sustainable assets and UK growth.
The latest social attitudes, key trends and potential surprises ahead of the upcoming UK general election with Kate Beaver, Chief Executive at IPSOS UK and Ireland.
Megatrends shaping our world and businesses with Lynda Gratton, organizational theorist, Professor of Management at London Business School and author of The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity.

We will also focus on the urgent need to invest in biodiversity, why diversity is important in decision making, how pension funds are combating climate change, diverse strategies for growth, LGPS consolidation and more. Lesley Paterson, Scottish triathlete, author, screenwriter and film producer will be our conference after dinner speaker.
Register now to secure your place at the UK’s largest event focused on pension fund investment.

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Pensions Age Awards 2024
2024-02-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Great Room, Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London
fThe Pensions Age Awards aim to reward both the pension schemes and the pension providers across the UK that have proved themselves worthy of recognition in these increasingly challenging economic times. The awards are open to any UK pension scheme or provider firm which serves pension schemes in the UK.
For the latest news and updates follow us @PensionsAge #PensionsAgeAwards

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SPS Local Authority pension funds' Annual Investment Conference
2024-02-14 09:00 - 16:30 | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
Aimed at local government pension funds, their pools and their advisors, this conference will review a range of topical investment strategies, opportunities and new ideas of interest to public sector investors. We will take account of the latest trends and the prevailing investment and governance landscape as well as specific issues or challenges facing LGPS investors and key practical implementation considerations.

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PP Key Themes of 2024
2024-01-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Surrey
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SPS Annual Bond Investment Conference
2024-01-11 09:00 - 16:30 | London

SPS: Property, Infrastructure & Real Asset Investments
2023-12-07 | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
This conference aims to examine a range of property, infrastructure and other real asset investment strategies and explore the ways pension funds can use them to meet their scheme specific goal requirements such as stable and sustainable returns, risk management and diversification. We will also consider how recent and prevailing conditions have impacted performance and prospects, and to include key practical considerations such as liquidity, ESG/impact/climate requirements and cost and implementation issues.

SPS Annual Northern Investment Conference
2023-12-06 09:00 - 16:30 | The Westbury Hotel, Dublin
This conference aims to review a range of key current issues facing Irish DB & DC pension funds and other institutional investors in the region and to examine a selection of investment approaches, opportunities and developments designed to address these in the current macroeconomic climate. We will take into consideration the latest trends and best practice, performance potential and practicalities such as implementation and specific regional requirements/challenges

Women In Pensions Awards 2023
2023-11-16 | Surrey
The Women in Pensions Awards firmly believes that initiatives that aim to inspire and campaign for greater representation of women both in pensions and on trustee boards have a key role to play in supporting gender diversity. We believe the Women in Pensions Awards can complement these initiatives by shining a spotlight on the work of inspirational and ground-breaking women in the pensions sector.

More information coming soon.

SPS: Current Investment Issues for Pension Funds
2023-11-09 | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
This wide-ranging event aims to address the most pressing investment issues and challenges facing pension funds looking ahead to 2024. We will include strategies designed to help pension funds to manage these issues and to take account of current and anticipated global and local regulatory and economic impacts, as well as investment considerations and practical matters such as ESG/impact, climate and biodiversity considerations, diversity, cashflow, performance, costs, risk management, and DC default and lifestyle strategies.

Irish Pensions Awards
2023-11-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Shelbourne Hotel Dublin
Now in their 12th successful year, the Irish Pensions Awards continue to go from strength to strength, giving well-deserved recognition to those pension funds, pension providers, advisers and pension professionals who strive to maintain the highest standards of excellence and professionalism in everything they do, despite the challenging economic and political landscape they find themselves operating in.
Deadline for entries: 7 July 2023

Responsible Investment Conference *Event date not confirmed yet
2023-11-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Surrey
The PLSA’s Responsible Investment Conference – formerly our digital ESG Conference – returns for 2023 as a face-to-face event featuring expert speakers discussing the latest developments in this quickly evolving landscape. Meet pension schemes and advisers at this essential event for anyone with an interest in responsible investment.
The one-day event takes place in a central London location.
More information on the programme will be available in the spring of 2023.
*Event date not confirmed yet

SPS: LGPS Sustainable Investment & Other Topical Issues Conference
2023-10-19 | 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.

PLSA Annual Conference 2023
2023-10-17 08:00 - 2023-10-19 17:00 | Surrey
MANCHESTER
The definitive pensions conference and exhibition, where the industry comes together to discuss every aspect of pensions, from communications and engagement, to investment, to the geopolitical outlook, and the trustee agenda.
In 2023 the PLSA is celebrating 100 years as the voice of workplace pensions. We’ve been bringing the industry together at this event since 1934, and it has been an annual fixture since 1962.

Corporate Adviser Summit
2023-10-05 08:00 - 2023-10-06 17:00 | fairmont windsor park
The Corporate Adviser Summit is the industry’s flagship event where 50 industry leaders from the major employee benefit consultancies and corporate advice firms gather to discuss the future direction of the industry. Taking place over two days, the Summit is a VIP, invitation-only event.

Employee Benefits Live
2023-10-03 08:00 - 2023-10-04 17:00 | Surrey
Employee Benefits Live is a free to attend, business to business event.
Please note that visitor entry is open to directors and in-house professionals responsible for HR, reward, benefit, compensation, employee engagement, motivation and pensions etc. Sales, marketing or similar representatives of service providers or suppliers will not be permitted visitor entry.
To apply for your visitor pass please complete the following form. Once received, your application will be reviewed by our team who will confirm whether or not it has been successful. Please allow a few working days for this. We advise you not to make travel or accommodation reservations until your visitor entry has been confirmed.

SPS: Net Zero and other ESG Investment Issues
2023-09-20 | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
This conference will consider the impact of a move to a net zero target on a range of both traditional and alternative investment strategies and to explore the different ways pension funds can best use these targets and strategies to help achieve their scheme specific climate goals. We also plan to explore the impact that a move to net zero will have on the need for enhanced returns and diversification and to review how strategies both coped with and performed under recent and prevailing economic and regulatory conditions from both a global and a local perspective as well as looking at other ESG/impact Investment issues and various practical issues including trustee involvement and implementation issues.

Fiduciary 360
2023-09-19 | Surrey
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Pensions Age Autumn Conference 2023
2023-09-14 08:00 - 17:00 | The Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych, London, WC2B 4DD

AWARENESS DAY: Pensions Awareness week
2023-09-11 08:00 - 2023-09-15 17:00 | Surrey
Pension Awareness is back. Bigger than ever. Better than before.
They are celebrating 10 years of making a positive difference. Over the last decade, they have contributed to helping and improving the financial lives of millions of people. An incredible achievement.
Get involved from 11th – 15th September 2023. The live timetable will be ready at the end of July.

SPS: Fixed Income Strategies in the New Investment Climate
2023-09-07 | The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
This conference aims to examine a range of bond and credit investment options designed to enable pension funds to achieve specific goals such as improving returns, generating cash flows and reducing volatility against the backdrop of the prevailing economic and regulatory conditions, looking at the effectiveness of different strategies to meet different challenges, bringing in any lessons that can be drawn from the past. We also seek to consider practical issues such as implementation, fees, transparency, various ESG/impact considerations, regulation, income, credit risk, liquidity, interest rates and geopolitics.

AWARENESS DAY: National Financial Awareness Day
2023-08-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Surrey
National Financial Awareness Day is a holiday dedicated to understanding finances and preparing everyone for financial stability. This is a great opportunity to really share some usefully information about how we can all get smarter with our finances and future.

SPS: Endgame Investment Solutions & Cash Flow Management for Pension Funds
2023-07-12 | The Dilly, London
This conference will explore a range of approaches to liability and cash flow management as well as strategies designed to hedge or reduce the risk of pension funds not meeting their objectives. We also aim to consider various strategies suitable for mature funds in the prevailing economic landscape, for example, alternative asset classes, instruments suitable for short- term cashflows, dynamic management of endgame strategies – including buy-ins, buy-outs, pension fund consolidation and superfunds whilst ensuring that funds comply with the practical issues of good governance.

European Pensions Awards
2023-07-06 | Marriott Grosvenor Square, London, United Kingdom
The European Pensions Awards were launched to give recognition to and honour the investment firms, consultancies and pension providers across Europe that have set the professional standards in order to best serve European pension funds over the past year. The awards are free to enter and open to any pension fund or firm which serves European pension funds.

SPS: Impact & Sustainable Investment Conference for DC & DB Pension Funds
2023-07-05 | 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. The practical investment information will also be very relevant for insurers, charities, endowments, and foundations.
Topical themes will include investment opportunities in different areas such Net zero, Biodiversity and Social projects as well as practical implementation and measurement to avoid the concern of “greenwashing”.
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.

Corporate Adviser Awards 2023
2023-06-29 | Marriott Grosvenor Square, London, United Kingdom
The Corporate Adviser Awards recognise excellence and innovation in the delivery of workplace benefits advice, consultancy, products and services. They are the leading awards for the workplace benefits community.

Defined Contribution Conference 2023
2023-06-28 | Surrey
More information to follow soon

Local Authority Conference
2023-06-26 08:00 - 2023-06-28 17:00 | Surrey
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
The must-attend event for anyone involved in the Local Government Pension Scheme, covering practical challenges and future opportunities in the ever-evolving landscape of local authority pensions.

Sustainable Investment Festival 2023
2023-06-14 08:00 - 2023-06-15 17:00 | Surrey
Sustainable investing has reached the next stage in its rapid transformation to become part of the investment mainstream.
Investors are demanding strategies with better outcomes for the environment and society, while regulators are implementing new frameworks to support and drive this purposeful investment.
Clearly, box-ticking is no longer enough and effective engagement at all levels of the industry is now essential to ensure meaningful change is achieved.
The Sustainable Investment Festival (SIF) will take impactful engagement as a key theme.
This will include:

Exploring best practice in how asset managers engage with companies
How advisers engage with clients on sustainable investing
How fund selectors and pension professionals engage with fund managers to drive positive change

PLSA - Investment Conference
2023-06-06 08:00 - 2023-06-08 17:00 | EICC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The PLSA Investment Conference 2023 is bringing together the full pensions investment chain to discuss the big picture challenges and sector-specific issues for pension fund investment in turbulent times.
This year pensions industry leaders and aspiring leaders will discuss:

The impact of macroeconomic and political instability on the investment climate
The way we identify, understand and manage the next big risks
The investment outlook for an industry searching for growth opportunities
How pension funds can support positive growth for the national economy and society

Over three days you’ll experience plenary sessions with insights from industry thought leaders and perspectives from experts on economics, geopolitics, digital development and risk management. Stream sessions, masterclasses, fireside chats and roundtables will get into the detail of the funding, asset allocation, stewardship and net zero challenges facing pensions schemes in 2023. Defined contribution defaults, defined benefit funding, CDC, LDI and private markets will all be on the programme, with more topics to be announced.
And away from the session content, our exhibition hall, drinks reception and conference dinner offer opportunities to network and share insight and experience with other pension scheme leaders.
Gain insight, expertise and opportunity at the PLSA Investment Conference 2023.

The UK Pensions Awards 2023
2023-06-01 | Royal Lancaster London Hotel, London, United Kingdom
The UK Pensions Awards – now in their 26th 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.
