Dimensional: Virtual 2021 Foundations Conference

Virtual

The Foundations Conference is designed to explore Dimensional’s unique investment philosophy and approach to markets for a diverse range of financial professionals. From foundational concepts, to a deep dive into the research that underpins our investment philosophy. Presentations will include insights into how we manage both Equity and Fixed Interest portfolios, and a comprehensive view of our available investment solutions.

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Willis Towers Watson – Investment Trustee Training

Willis Towers Watson Leeds 5 Wellington Place Wellington Street, Leeds

Register Now This one-day course is designed to give delegates a deeper understanding of a range of investment issues that apply to both DB and DC pension schemes. In the morning session delegates will explore: Trustee investment responsibilities and governance matters across UK pension funds, including the importance of applying investment beliefs in investment strategy. Characteristics of mainstream and alternative

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Baker McKenzie’s Pensions Breakfast Briefing Webinar

Baker McKenzie's Pensions Team is pleased to invite you to our next breakfast briefing webinar on developments in pensions law. As in many other areas of life, COVID-19 has served to accelerate and emphasize pension scheme issues and trends for scheme sponsors and trustees. In this session, we focus on two such areas: Transfers: with pension scheme transfers already a

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Hymans Robertson: Webinar – Assessing the governance legacy of COVID-19

Which of the changes made by Pensions boards will outlast the pandemic? Register for our webinar here: bit.ly/31cRzZy where we consider the governance legacy across three key themes: - Digitisation and innovation; - Board composition; - Risk management. We will consider what best-practice board composition and risk management looks like in a post-COVID-19 world. Also, how we can build a

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Mitigating the Risk of yet another Financial Crisis

This online symposium is an important thought leadership event dedicated to discussing and debating what more can be done to mitigate the risk of yet another financial crisis. It is now some 12 years since Lehman Brothers collapsed; an event so shocking that it sent the world economy into cardiac arrest. And of course, we are still in the depths

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XPS Live – Protecting Member Outcomes with Fiona Frobisher, Head of Policy, TPR

Online

Register Now - Wednesday 8 July, 3pm - 4pm We are delighted to be joined by Fiona Frobisher, Head of Policy at the Pensions Regulator who will share her views and answer questions on what trustees and employers need to be doing to protect member outcomes in the current environment.  The interactive session will also see the launch of our

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Master Trust Marketplace (Roundtable Discussion)

We'd like to invite you to hear from leading DC master trust providers and find out their views on the future of the DC market. This will be the first in a series of innovative roundtable discussions designed to provide insight and ideas to shape how the DC market could develop. There are two sessions available which each feature a

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Hymans Robertson & Gowling: Webinar – New funding solutions for DB pension schemes

With COVID-19 hitting scheme funding and constraining affordability for employers, layered on top of a new funding regime which raises the bar, what sort of new funding solutions are evolving in the DB market? Register here our joint webinar with Gowling on 17 July for an actuarial and legal assessment of the new solutions: As well as looking at shorter

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Barnett Waddingham – ESG webinar series: Private market assets

On line

A wise man said being clever is not being able to predict when it will rain, being clever is bringing an umbrella. Much of the discourse surrounding ESG and climate risk revolves around the issue rather than the solution. In our webinar series, we address the issue of what does a portfolio that is aligned with the Paris Agreement look

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Barnett Waddingham – Urgent actions needed to address the impact of Covid-19 on endgame strategies

Online

Join our specialist panel of speakers from Barnett Waddingham and Ernst and Young to share their combined insights and expertise. The session will bring together Barnett Waddingham’s latest research on UK DB pension schemes with Ernst and Young’s forecasts and insights into the current economic environment on schemes and their sponsors. Barnett Waddingham will review the impact on DB schemes

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