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Stephanie Baxter

Stephanie Baxter

Financial journalist

Stephanie Baxter is a financial journalist at Rhotic Media, and former deputy editor of Professional Pensions.

She joined Professional Pensions as chief correspondent in July 2014 before being promoted to news editor in 2016, and then deputy editor in 2017, before leaving the publication in 2019. In 2020, she joined Rhotic Media.

Stephanie has written across a range of pension topics including fund management, defined benefit scheme funding, local government pensions, and regulation. 

Stephanie has been a financial journalist for eight years.

She joined Professional Pensions from her role as online editor at Global Investor/ISF, a Euromoney-owned title covering the asset servicing, asset management and securities finance sectors. 

Stephanie was awarded Journalist of the Year (Pensions) at the State Street UK Institutional Press Awards 2017.

She was shortlisted as Journalist of the Year at the 2015 Incisive Media Awards, and was also shortlisted as Investor Services & Technology Journalist of the Year in the 2013 State Street UK Institutional Press Awards.

Outside of pensions, Stephanie enjoys running, going to the theatre, ballet and music gigs. 

 

Articles by Stephanie Baxter

Investment

RPMI Railpen selects BNP Paribas to support in-house investment

The Railways Pension Scheme's investment house has appointed BNP Paribas Securities Services to manage its dealing services.

clock 27 May 2015 •

Investment

Beware of risks in frontier market and EM corporate debt, warns HSBC

Investors must tread cautiously when searching for yield in emerging market debt (EMD), HSBC Global Asset Management has cautioned.

clock 26 May 2015 •

Investment

ESG is 'real drain' on strained resources in LGPS, says Avon scheme

Local government schemes face a "real drain on resources" in getting to grips with ethical, social and governance (ESG) risks, according to Avon Pension Fund's investment manager.

clock 22 May 2015 •

Investment

How the banks finally admit they rigged the FX markets

PP looks at the investigation that led to four banks pleading guilty to criminal charges over FX manipulation

clock 22 May 2015 •

Law and Regulation

Hutton: LGPS must brace itself for even bigger reforms under Tories

Lord Hutton believes the next three years will see "extraordinary change" for the local government scheme. Stephanie Baxter reports

clock 21 May 2015 •

Defined Benefit

Royal Mail scheme surplus rises 88% to £3.2bn

The Royal Mail Pension Plan's (RMPP) surplus has risen by £1.5bn in 12 months, according to the postal service's annual report.

clock 21 May 2015 •

Investment

Regulators slap £3.6bn on six banks for rigging FX rates

UK and US watchdogs have fined six global banks more than $5.6bn (£3.6bn) after four of them admitted manipulated foreign exchange (FX) markets.

clock 20 May 2015 •

Law and Regulation

Lord Hutton: Ministers must not turn LGPS into a sovereign wealth fund

There are better ways to improve the local government pension scheme (LGPS) than merging it into one big sovereign wealth fund, according to Labour peer Lord John Hutton.

clock 20 May 2015 •

Law and Regulation

'Nasty surprises' in store for LGPS if UK stays in EU

The local government pension scheme (LGPS) would face huge challenges if it was forced to comply with EU, warns a lawyer.

clock 19 May 2015 •

Corporate Governance

Asset managers 'side too often' with company management

Some asset managers are failing to use their voting rights to properly steward pension assets and are not being sufficiently transparent, according to a report by ShareAction.

clock 18 May 2015 •
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