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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

What will LGPS pools look like?

PP looks at the LGPS pools emerging as the government's deadline looms.

clock 25 January 2016 • 4 min read

Investment

LGPS moves closer to adopting Dutch-style cost transparency code

Details are emerging of a cost transparency and disclosure code for asset managers that invest on behalf of the local government pension scheme (LGPS).

clock 20 January 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

Top five stories you may have missed this week

This week the FCA admitted a blunder on cash-out figures, TPR won a landmark AE case in the High Court, while a ground-breaking case could help trustees override drafting mistakes.

clock 15 January 2016 • 1 min read

Law and Regulation

Lesley Williams: All savers hear these days is that 'pensions are bad'

PLSA's new chair tells PP why tax relief uncertainty is damaging our savings culture

clock 15 January 2016 • 7 min read

Law and Regulation

MPs to grill Altmann about state pension today

Pensions minister Ros Altmann will be quizzed by the Work and Pensions Select Committee today as part of an ongoing inquiry into the new state pension.

clock 15 January 2016 • 1 min read

Investment

Stephanie Flanders: We're not jumping off the ship yet but expect lower returns

Investors need to focus on the big picture despite a very bumpy start to the year for markets, according to JPMorgan Asset Management's Stephanie Flanders.

clock 14 January 2016 • 2 min read

Investment

PIP gets green light to directly manage assets

The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) has been given the go-ahead by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to directly manage assets on behalf of schemes.

clock 13 January 2016 • 1 min read

Investment

BlackRock does major reshuffle; Arno Kitts to quit in April

BlackRock has reorganised its senior management team as it unifies its active equity strategies, globalises its fixed income business and creates a real assets group.

clock 13 January 2016 • 1 min read

Defined Benefit

Government should replace LGPS with DC scheme through NEST, says Johnson

Pooling the local government pension scheme (LGPS) into infrastructure-focused funds is mere tinkering and will not be enough to repair its deficit hole, according to Michael Johnson.

clock 12 January 2016 • 2 min read

Law and Regulation

Truell: I want to pool public sector pensions into six £40bn funds

Former LPFA chief Edmund Truell tells PP about his radical plans for public sector pensions

clock 12 January 2016 • 6 min read
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