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Jonathan Stapleton

Jonathan Stapleton

Jonathan is editor of Professional Pensions and Workplace Savings & Benefits (WSB).

He started work as a journalist on a capital markets magazine called Central European in 2000 before joining an internet start-up called ii-Q.com, a pensions news service.

Jonathan joined Professional Pensions in July 2001 and has been there, barring a nine month sabbatical in 2004, ever since. He launched PP Online in 2006, became deputy editor of Professional Pensions in 2008, editor in 2009, launched WSB in 2012 and became editor-in-chief of both brands in 2014.

Jonathan has won a number of awards throughout his career - most recently the Society of Pension Professionals' Journalist of the Year Award 2019 - and is holder of the Pension Management Institute's Retirement Provision Certificate.

Outside of pensions, Jonathan enjoys spending time with his son, helping to run a Scout troop and trying (unsuccessfully so far) to improve his very sluggish 5km running time.

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Articles by Jonathan Stapleton

Industry

Latest issue - 15 February

This week's edition of Professional Pensions is out now

clock 14 February 2018 • 1 min read

Investment

Market volatility could herald 'serious trouble' for risk parity funds

Mark Hodgson explains how model-driven, volatility-linked trading strategies such as risk parity can fail should risk spike or predicted correlations between equities and bonds break down.

clock 14 February 2018 • 3 min read

Investment

This was a correction, not a collapse

John Walbaum asks if we have forgotten the realities of equity markets and questions whether recent market falls are part of a longer-term collapse.

clock 13 February 2018 • 3 min read

Industry

Why Richard Butcher is right

I don't always agree with Richard Butcher - I think he would be disappointed if I did - but his speech at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association's annual chair's dinner last week was spot on.

clock 12 February 2018 • 1 min read

Investment

How trustees review asset manager performance

In the first of a three part series on how trustees choose asset managers, Jonathan Stapleton speaks to Richard Butcher and Roger Mattingly about how trustees review asset manager performance.

clock 12 February 2018 • 13 min read

Appointments

Patrick McCoy joins Xafinity Punter Southall as head of investment

Patrick McCoy has been appointed to lead Xafinity Punter Southall's combined investment teams.

clock 09 February 2018 • 1 min read

Law and Regulation

Taylor Review response 'offers prospect' of pensions for gig economy workers

Gig economy workers could become eligible for auto-enrolment pensions as result of a consultation launched by the government in response to the Taylor Review.

clock 08 February 2018 • 3 min read

Industry

Latest issue - 8 February

This week's edition of Professional Pensions is out now

clock 07 February 2018 • 1 min read

Employee Benefits

Willis Towers Watson: Existing health and wellbeing schemes 'not appealing' to employees

Health and wellbeing initiatives are failing to appeal to employees, with 70% of workers saying such programmes do not meet their needs, latest research from Willis Towers Watson reveals.

clock 07 February 2018 • 3 min read

Defined Contribution

Shutting the stable door…

The industry has been calling for some sort of alternative to defined benefit (DB) schemes for as long as I can remember - saying such arrangements could provide a third way between DB and defined contribution (DC) schemes.

clock 06 February 2018 • 2 min read
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