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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 Benefit

DB consolidation will accelerate without legislative change

Research by Hymans Robertson predicts existing options could shrink the DB universe by four-fifths in 25 years' time. Stephanie Baxter explores its predictions

clock 13 February 2018 • 6 min read

Risk Reduction

How 2017's largest longevity deal came to fruition

MMC UK Pension Fund's Frank Oldham tells Stephanie Baxter how its £3.4bn longevity swap came about and why it chose a captive structure

clock 12 February 2018 • 8 min read

Industry

Five stories you may have missed this week

This week's top stories include The Pensions Regulator fining a Now Pensions trustee £70,000, and BT appealing a court ruling over its RPI to CPI indexation swap.

clock 09 February 2018 • 1 min read

Regulation

Pensions Ombudsman investigating 150 British Steel complaints

The Pensions Ombudsman is investigating a group of more than 150 complaints about transfer values from British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) members.

clock 09 February 2018 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

LGPS pooling is just 'the end of the beginning'

Susan Martin says local government pension funds have made great strides in collaborating but there are still challenges ahead of the April deadline

clock 08 February 2018 • 3 min read

Industry

Greater Manchester LGPS gets first pension chairwoman

Councillor Brenda Warrington has been appointed to lead the £23bn Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), following the recent passing away of Kieran Quinn.

clock 07 February 2018 • 2 min read

Defined Contribution

Royal London to issue wake-up packs five years before retirement

Royal London has updated its wake-up pack strategy for pension clients and will now get in touch a full five years before a saver's scheduled retirement date.

clock 07 February 2018 • 1 min read

Law and Regulation

Airline's pension trustees fined over audit failings in first for TPR

Four trustees of Pakistan International Airlines' Retirement and Death Benefits Plan have been fined £500 each by the regulator for failing to audit accounts on time for two years in a row.

clock 07 February 2018 • 2 min read

Defined Benefit

BT closes DB scheme to managers; union secures improved deal

The BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) will close to future accrual for managers in May 2018, and will them into the telecoms giant's defined contribution (DC) scheme.

clock 06 February 2018 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

How TPR can use its powers more effectively

Mark Blyth says the regulator could be more proactive in its approach to settlement, and calls for shorter and more focussed s.89 reports

clock 05 February 2018 • 5 min read
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