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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

Defined Contribution

Is the crackdown on the US pensions industry a warning for the UK?

Stephanie Baxter asks if the UK should take heed of the US pensions clampdown

clock 27 February 2015 •

Investment

RPMI: Managers still failing to use voting rights

Many fund managers are still failing to use voting rights to properly govern pension scheme assets, RPMI Railpen Investments has warned.

clock 26 February 2015 •

Investment

PIP on hiring spree to establish in-house investment team

The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP) has embarked on a hiring process to establish its investment team, according to chief executive officer Mike Weston.

clock 25 February 2015 •

Risk Reduction

Balfour Beatty delays pension deficit payment through ABCs

Balfour Beatty has set up an £85m asset-backed contributions structure to plug the estimated £284m deficit of its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

clock 24 February 2015 •

Defined Benefit

Heathrow agrees extra £27m to plug DB scheme's £300m deficit

Heathrow has agreed to spend an extra £3m annually over nine years until 2023 to plug the £300m deficit of its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

clock 23 February 2015 •

Investment

Watchdog says trustees struggle to assess managers and consultants

Trustees struggle to assess asset managers and investment consultants, according a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) review that also identified conflicts of interest and a lack of competition in the markets.

clock 23 February 2015 •

Risk Reduction

Centrica uses PIE to cut liabilities by £10m

Centrica initiated a pension increase exchange (PIE) exercise across its defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in 2014.

clock 20 February 2015 •

Investment

Over half of asset managers will not reduce fees for April charge cap

More than half of asset management firms will not reduce fees for the April charge cap on defined contribution (DC) default funds, according to a poll.

clock 20 February 2015 •

Defined Benefit

How do schemes prepare for an election that is impossible to call?

Stephanie Baxter looks the risks schemes will face around the general election

clock 19 February 2015 •

Law and Regulation

EU lays plans to attract schemes to SME and infrastructure debt

The European Commission has laid out options for a capital markets union (CMU) it hopes will encourage schemes to invest in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and infrastructure.

clock 18 February 2015 •
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