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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

Law and Regulation

EU stress tests: Just another burden for schemes?

PP looks at what UK schemes should expect from EU stress tests

clock 18 May 2015 •

Investment

How the Investor Forum can help schemes of all sizes

Stephanie Baxter speaks to Investor Forum chairman Simon Fraser about how the organisation can benefit pension schemes.

clock 15 May 2015 •

Investment

Website launched to help members pressure schemes on high-carbon assets

Pension funds are being pressured to support a shareholder resolution to force Chevron to halt spending on high-carbon assets and instead return capital to shareholders.

clock 14 May 2015 •

Defined Benefit

Enhanced annuity providers suffer from Budget freedoms

Just Retirement and Partnership have seen sales of individual annuities collapse in the months running up to the introduction of the pension freedoms.

clock 13 May 2015 •

Defined Contribution

Are post-budget products a panacea to the pensions dilemma?

PP looks at the investment products rolled out in response to the Budget changes and charge cap

clock 13 May 2015 •

Defined Benefit

PPF 7800 deficits fall 17% in April

Total deficits of defined benefit (DB) schemes in the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) 7800 index fell 17% in April.

clock 12 May 2015 •

Defined Contribution

How can trustees give guidance without being on the hook for advice?

PP looks at the risks in giving members guidance and what trustees can do to avoid them

clock 11 May 2015 •

Investment

Greater London Authority raises £200m via UK's first CPI bond

The UK's first sterling bond linked to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been issued to help finance the building of a tube link in London.

clock 11 May 2015 •

Investment

How can schemes tackle the headache of transaction costs?

PP analyses responses to the FCA's consultation on transaction costs

clock 11 May 2015 •

Law and Regulation

Pensions industry pays tribute to outgoing Steve Webb

The industry has thanked pensions minister Steve Webb for his contribution to pensions after he lost his parliamentary seat in yesterday's general election.

clock 08 May 2015 •
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