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      This concise half-day event will explore a variety of different issues affecting scheme managers, through a combination of informative presentations and interactive panel debates, including GMP equalisation, the pensions dashboard, the accuracy and quality of members data and the latest trends in scheme administration.

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Industry Voice: Gaining a trading edge in emerging-markets debt
Industry Voice: Gaining a trading edge in emerging-markets debt

In this Q&A, Mike O’Brien, Director of Global Trading, offers his insights into how the trading desk seeks to add alpha to the investment process.

  • Emerging Markets
  • 24 October 2019
Industry Voice: Economic policy or economic growth? What matters most for sovereign bond quality and performance? See Eaton Vance's latest report
Industry Voice: Economic policy or economic growth? What matters most for sovereign bond quality and performance? See Eaton Vance's latest report

In this paper, Marshall Stocker, Ph.D, CFA, explores the key drivers of sovereign bond ratings, spread performance and frequency of defaults, paying particular attention to the determinant role that economic policy plays.

  • Investment
  • 17 October 2019
Industry Voice: Flexible credit: all-weather allocation
Industry Voice: Flexible credit: all-weather allocation

Flexibility means having the freedom to invest strategically across fixed-income markets. In this paper, we look at how flexible strategies generate returns by allocating capital and risk across the credit spectrum.

  • Investment
  • 08 October 2019
Industry Voice: FTSE 350 pensions - Investment strategy
Industry Voice: FTSE 350 pensions - Investment strategy

Deficit contributions and favourable asset returns in recent years have led to improved funding positions and our analysis suggests buying out scheme liabilities with an insurer is now a realistic medium-term goal for the majority of FTSE 350 companies...

  • Investment
  • 12 September 2019
Industry Voice: Is fiscal the new monetary?
Industry Voice: Is fiscal the new monetary?

As monetary policy seems almost exhausted, could fiscal easing kick-start growth and take us out of the low rate, low growth environment that we have been in for 10 years?

  • Investment
  • 06 September 2019
Partner Insight: Monitoring master trust investment performance
Partner Insight: Monitoring master trust investment performance

2018 was a testing year for master trust investment performance. Michael Ambery looks at how different strategies fared during a difficult 12 months

  • Investment
  • 03 September 2019
Partner Insight: An evolving market
Partner Insight: An evolving market

Professional Pensions takes a look at how the master trust market is evolving in light of the authorisation regime and asks what the future could hold

  • Investment
  • 02 September 2019
Industry Voice: Investing against the possibility of regime change
Industry Voice: Investing against the possibility of regime change

  • Investment
  • 02 September 2019
Video: Rise in bulk member options exercises enables more say on pension benefits
Video: Rise in bulk member options exercises enables more say on pension benefits

  • Regulation
  • 14 August 2019
Industry Voice: FTSE 350 pensions - Where are companies on the endgame journey?
Industry Voice: FTSE 350 pensions - Where are companies on the endgame journey?

Driven by an increase in corporate bond yields and the continuing payment of deficit contributions, 2018 was a positive year for the disclosed financial position of the FTSE 350's defined benefit (DB) schemes, with the aggregate deficit decreasing from...

  • Defined Benefit
  • 13 August 2019
Industry Voice: Regulatory pressure to bring forward the DB pensions endgame?
Industry Voice: Regulatory pressure to bring forward the DB pensions endgame?

Corporates must place greater emphasis on their schemes' endgame target, says Barnett Waddingham.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 09 July 2019
Challenging the tomorrow mentality
Challenging the tomorrow mentality

In recent years there has been a sharp uptick in the number of UK DB pension scheme trustees implementing fiduciary arrangements. Indeed, this is not a coincidence given the current investment environment trustees are facing.

  • Investment
  • 04 July 2019
Five tactics for late-cycle investing
Five tactics for late-cycle investing

The current US economic expansion is now the longest in modern history, and investors globally will be seriously contemplating the end of the credit cycle.

  • Investment
  • 04 July 2019
Video: Five things to consider when investing in investment-grade credit
Video: Five things to consider when investing in investment-grade credit

  • Fixed Income
  • 10 June 2019
Five potential disruptors to the global economy
Five potential disruptors to the global economy

Schemes must beware serial disruptors including China, populism and demographics, says PIMCO.

  • Investment
  • 04 June 2019
Pension consolidator vehicles: an insurer's perspective
Pension consolidator vehicles: an insurer's perspective

In the second of a two-part series, Russell Lee (left) and Tom MacAulay (right) from Legal & General's Pension Risk Transfer business look at pension consolidation vehicles (PCVs) from an insurance perspective

  • Risk Reduction
  • 16 May 2019
Five things to consider when investing in ABS
Five things to consider when investing in ABS

Asset-backed securities are an under-utilised market for many pension funds but TwentyFour Asset Management partner Ben Hayward outlines what to look out for.

  • Investment
  • 07 May 2019
Ethics & alpha: Can investing responsibly enhance returns?
Ethics & alpha: Can investing responsibly enhance returns?

Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer at Aviva Investors, takes an in-depth look at the relationship between responsible investing and performance.

  • Investment
  • 30 April 2019
Director or dictator?
Director or dictator?

Industry Voice: Star CEOs are bringing into question what makes a good leader in a flatter, networked world. We explore what this means for the overall governance of companies

  • Investment
  • 30 April 2019
Three key takeaways from PIMCO's cyclical outlook: Flatlining at the new neutral
Three key takeaways from PIMCO's cyclical outlook: Flatlining at the new neutral

Industry Voice: Sponsored by PIMCO

  • Investment
  • 17 April 2019
Multi-sector credit: Flexibility amid shifting markets
Multi-sector credit: Flexibility amid shifting markets

Better long-term results for investors may be possible through a multi-sector approach to credit, says PIMCO.

  • Global
  • 11 April 2019
Reaching a point of no return
Reaching a point of no return

Slowing global growth and rising downside risk means reliability of return will be key, says Aberdeen Standard Investments head of diversified multi-asset Mike Brooks.

  • Investment
  • 08 April 2019
Striving for a more certain world
Striving for a more certain world

At the recent Risk Reduction Forum, hosted by Professional Pensions, Schroders' Hannah Simons discussed how cashflow driven investment can provide greater confidence of achieving a strategic goal

  • Defined Benefit
  • 28 March 2019
Fiduciary management as a governance solution
Fiduciary management as a governance solution

Industry Voice: A fiduciary management approach gives trustees a richness of information you can't get with a standard adviser approach, especially in times of market uncertainty, explain Russell Investments' David Rae and Paul Wharton

  • Corporate Governance
  • 26 March 2019
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