Annual Conference & Exhibition 2018 | Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) | 17 October 2018 | Pullman Liverpool Hotel, Kings Dock, Monarchs Quay, Liverpool L3 4FP, UK

The title of this year’s conference is ‘Understanding member perspectives’. We are encouraging the industry to focus on the end customer - our scheme members.

We will be exploring many questions, including – Are our schemes designed to meet members’ needs? Do we understand our members well enough? Are our admin systems providing the service they want? Do we know how to help our members understand pensions?

Trust and engagement are key themes we will be considering, and our high-level roster of speakers, drawn from the worlds of government, business and the media will ensure that the most critical issues facing our industry will be examined from all angles. All types of schemes – DB, DC and master trusts, will benefit from attending the conference as we discuss topics including the fitness of the pensions regulatory environment, the potential impact of Brexit on the economy and schemes, how effective engagement and trust impact members’ attitudes about retirement and what the next generation of savers wants to understand from our industry.

The PLSA’s Annual Conference and Exhibition is our industry’s largest gathering, with around 1,500 trustees, pension managers, investment managers, consultants, policy makers and researchers joining us for three days of plenary and specialist stream sessions, focusing on DB, DC, Member engagement and Pension vision. In addition we have over 80 exhibitors showcasing the latest products and services the industry has to offer and many networking events including the PLSA drinks reception.

2018 Speakers:

Andrew Marr
Broadcaster and Author

Guy Opperman
Pensions Minister

Lesley Titcomb
Chief Executive, The Pensions Regulator

David Geale
Director of Policy, Financial Conduct Authority

Matthew Syed
Journalist and Author, ‘Black Box Thinking’

Noreena Hertz
Economist and Author

Rt Hon Lord David Willetts
Executive Chair, Resolution Foundation

2018 Sponsors

• Aberdeen Standard Investments
• Altus Business Systems
• Amundi Asset Management
• AON Empower Results
• Aquila Heywood
• AXA Investment Managers
• Barnett Waddingham
• BMO Global Asset Management
• Burges Salmon
• CAIA Association
• Canada Life Investments
• Cardano
• Charles Stanley
• Clear Path Analysis
• Criterion Tec
• Crowe Clarke Whitehill
• Eshare
• Faraday Tracing Bureau
• Ferrier Pearce Creative Group
• Financial News
• Franklin Templeton Investment Management
• FTSE Russell
• Grant Thornton
• HSBC Global Asset Management
• IC Select
• Insight Investment
• Invesco
• Investec Asset Management
• ITM
• JLT
• J.P. Morgan Asset Management
• Jupiter asset management
• JUST
• KAS Bank N.V
• Kempen Capital Management
• LCP
• Legal and Genera
• Legal and General Investment Management
• Lemonade Rewards
• Linklaters
• Lombard Odier Asset Management (Europe)
• Mandate Wire
• Mercer
• Nest
• NFOP
• Origo Services
• Payden & Rygel
• PASA
• Pendragon
• Pension Funds Online
• Pensions expert
• Pensions Age
• Pension Insurance Corporation
• Pictet Asset Management
• Pinebridge Investments Europe
• Pinsent Masons
• Portfolio
• Premier
• Professional Pensions
• Profund Solutions
• Record Currency Management
• River and Mercantile
• Royal London Asset Management
• RSM
• Sackers
• Savvy Investor
• Schoders
• Scottish Widows
• SEI Investments
• Smart Pensions
• Smith & Williamson
• State Street Global Advisors
• Target Professional Services
• Tpt Retirement Solutions
• T Rowe Price
• AMX
• Western Union Business Solutions
• Willis Towers Watson