ABOUT
Corporate Adviser has led the debate around DC pensions for 20 years and the Master Trust & GPP Conference is its flagship one-day conference, bringing together the consultants, adviser, trustees, investment experts and other key stakeholders that shape workplace pensions.
The Conference will explore and analyse the momentous regulatory and market changes currently facing the sector, across scale, consolidation, investment strategy, private markets, technology, governance, engagement and advisory solutions. Delegates at the event are key decision-makers within EBCs and corporate IFAs who play a key role in determining the structure and design of the schemes they recommend. The firms represented at the Conference together advise virtually all large and medium-sized organisations in the UK, playing a key role in determining the retirement saving behaviour of tens of millions of Britons.
KEY THEMES
This year’s Conference takes place against a government agenda of extreme change in the workplace pensions sector. Consolidation is a key theme, impacting both providers and adviser/consultant firms, driven both by regulation and market forces. The Pensions Schemes Bill is accelerating change across most areas of workplace pensions both in accumulation and decumulation. Meanwhile technology is adding more impetus to this fast-evolving landscape with AI revolutionising many aspects of internal and member-facing processes just as the industry prepares itself for the launch of the pensions dashboard. is proceeding at pace, advisory and consultancy firms themselves are also consolidating rapidly, the Mansion House Accord is driving significant changes in default investment design and industry views on how to tackle decumulation are gathering pace. At the same time the value for money framework and the impending dashboard will raise the profile of workplace pensions further amongst employers and their staff, at a time when AI is revolutionising the way members engage with retirement planning.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED INCLUDE:
The ways in which the Pensions Schemes Act and other policy and regulation developments will impact the workplace pensions sector
International perspectives on DC pensions from leading global organisations
VFM, investment and the performance test
The impact of the consolidation and evolution of the adviser/consultant market
How providers are implementing private market investments in their default propositions
AI in pensions advice, guidance and engagement
Retirement income solutions – which solutions will win out, how they will be implemented and what knock-on impacts will they have on accumulation
CDC – multi-employer and decumulation-only – will they succeed and if so, how?
An update on the dashboard delivery project and what it teaches us
How AI will transform the role of providers, advisers, asset managers and trustees
Behavioural insights into pensions engagement and the role of targeted support
Global macro-economic insights shaping the DC investment landscape
Agenda at a Glance
Here's an overview of what's happening at this year's conference
- Registration and welcome coffee08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
- Conference Programme09:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Lunch12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
- Drinks Reception5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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