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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

BlackRock to repurpose target date fund range and enter drawdown market

BlackRock is working to "repurpose" its range of target date funds and introduce an income drawdown product in response to the liberalisation of defined contribution (DC) regulation.

clock 29 July 2014 •

Appointments

B&CE hires NEST's Roy Porter to focus on strategic relationship

Roy Porter has joined B&CE, provider of The People's Pension, as business development director to help the firm as it adapts to sweeping pension reforms.

clock 29 July 2014 •

Defined Benefit

Trustees encouraged to offer DB members higher transfer values

Defined benefit (DB) trustees should consider increasing the transfer values they offer to members in light of the upcoming liberalisation of defined contribution (DC) regulation, according to Mercer.

clock 28 July 2014 •

Risk Management

Demand grows for multi-asset strategies as investors look to manage risk

Institutional investors are increasingly looking to use multi-asset strategies, according to a new survey by ING Investment Management.

clock 28 July 2014 •

Bulk Annuities

ILC says falling annuity rates do not mean poor value for money

Annuities should continue to play an important role in retirement planning and free guidance, according to research published today by the International Longevity Centre (ILC).

clock 25 July 2014 •

Law and Regulation

Treasury report hits out at EU policymakers' desire for cross-border schemes

Harmonising pension policy on a European Union (EU) level is unlikely to work due to a lack of demand for cross-border schemes, according to a Treasury report, published yesterday.

clock 25 July 2014 •

Bulk Annuities

Annuities to 'rebound' to over £10bn by 2023 despite falling sales

Annuities will continue to be a substantial part of the at-retirement market in ten years' time, albeit smaller, according to new research by Towers Watson.

clock 24 July 2014 •

Law and Regulation

FX rigging could be 'swindling' pensions of millions

Pension funds could have been cheated out of millions of pounds by manipulation of the £3trn foreign exchange (FX) markets, warns Mark Taylor, dean of Warwick Business School.

clock 23 July 2014 •
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