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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

Is there a problem with market liquidity?

PP looks at whether fears that market liquidity is falling are justified and if we should be worried.

clock 29 April 2016 • 5 min read

Law and Regulation

Has there been any progress towards cost transparency?

IGCs and trustees are still a long way from getting transparency on transaction costs, finds PP.

clock 25 April 2016 • 6 min read

Law and Regulation

Pension funds struggling to get withholding tax refunds in EU

PensionsEurope has warned schemes are losing out from difficulties in getting withholding tax (WHT) refunds on cross-border investments in the EU.

clock 22 April 2016 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

HMRC and FCA unveil draft rules for secondary annuities

HMRC and the FCA have begun consulting on a tax framework and rules for the secondary annuity market.

clock 21 April 2016 • 6 min read

Law and Regulation

No EU solvency regime is good news but we should not be complacent

EIOPA's decision to not impose a solvency-based funding regime on pension funds has been welcomed but has it really gone for good, asks Stephanie Baxter?

clock 19 April 2016 •

Law and Regulation

EU regulator drops solvency regime but alternative will still be costly

Despite ditching controversial solvency-based funding rules, EIOPA's proposed reporting regime will add costs and complexity.

clock 18 April 2016 • 4 min read

Law and Regulation

EU watchdog ditches controversial solvency funding regime

The European pensions regulator has decided not to pursue an EU-wide capital regime which is being hailed as good news for UK schemes.

clock 15 April 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

How schemes' bond holdings reached a record high

Since de-risking took off at the turn of the millennium, FTSE 100 pension fund bond holdings have increased to a peak of 59% of total assets, writes Stephanie Baxter.

clock 15 April 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

TPR consults on guides to help trustees with new DC code

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched for consultation a series of guides to help trustees implement its revised defined contribution (DC) code.

clock 14 April 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

Tesco's pension deficit drops 38% to £2.6bn

The deficit of Tesco's defined benefit (DB) scheme has fallen by £1.6bn after reaching £4.2bn last year as the supermarket moves into the black.

clock 13 April 2016 • 2 min read
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