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.

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.

The aim of the DC Strategic Summit is to deliver a DC pensions conference like no other, comprising a thorough examination of the outlook for the sector, and the opportunities and challenges it presents to all the key players at any point in time. There are detailed debates on all the pressing topics in DC. The Summit is highly interactive, with outstanding knowledge-sharing and networking opportunities.

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 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.

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.

Due to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, the LAPF Investments Awards ceremony has been postponed to 26 November 2020. As a result, the closing date for entry has been extended to 18 September 2020.