The DB Strategic Investment Forum gathers senior pension executives from across the UK to address key issues, learn how peers are confronting common challenges, and hear from leading industry experts on the investment approaches that are working at other funds. With a mixture of panel sessions, interviews, presentations and discussion groups on investment and other issues, the DB Strategic Investment Forum is a key fixture in the calendar for pensions professionals seeking to deliver outstanding investment returns for their pension funds.

The Responsible Investment Forum will look at the impact of the new regulations for LGPS investment committees, and is designed to help the Scheme Advisory Board formulate the sector’s response to an increasing awareness of investment committees’ responsibilities to their pension funds and to society in general.

The Pension Fund Investors Dinner brings pension funds and their advisers together in a relaxed, informal environment where issues of the day can be discussed and relationships established or renewed. Representatives from pension funds, consultants, advisers and fund managers sit at each table at the dinner, and a drinks reception beforehand offers the ideal opportunity for attendees to widen their circle of friends and acquaintances. Timed to coincide with the PLSA Annual Conference, this event continues to go from strength to strength.

LGPS-Live is a webinar series focusing on the key issues for LGPS pension funds and pools. Upcoming webinars look at specific areas of pension fund management, examining how the LGPS can deal efficiently with day-to-day operations, administration and governance, while maintaining their focus on investment strategy and performance.

The Summit gathers the most senior executives and trustees from leading corporate and local government pension plans, together with master trust and IGC chairs, senior government officials, regulators, members of influential trade bodies, and key advisers to the industry, to debate the implications of the tectonic shifts taking place across the UK pensions landscape.