Held each year in July, the LAPF Strategic Investment Forum is a one and a half day investment conference for senior LGPS fund investment officers and their advisers. Consisting of short, snappy, thought-provoking presentations, interviews, expert panel sessions and roundtable discussions focusing on key investment issues, the conference attracts strong attendance from the sector, and has become an important event in the calendar for local authority pension fund representatives and their advisers.

Following the outstanding success of the 2018 awards, we are delighted to announce that the 2019 LAPF Investments Awards will be held at 8 Northumberland Avenue in London on the 19th September.

Impact investing challenges the view that institutional investors must focus on purely financial factors in order to achieve their strategic investment goals. This half-day seminar will help to shape the response of the pension fund sector to an increased awareness of the opportunities presented by impact investing.

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 & Exhibition in October, this event continues to go from strength to strength.

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.