Roundtable: Navigating the evolving Defined Benefit landscape: Building resilient retirements
BlackRock Roundtable - Navigating the evolving Defined Benefit landscape: Building resilient retirements
Roundtable by BlackRock
With tighter regulation and further consolidation impending, the DB pensions landscape continues to evolve, presenting both challenges and opportunities ahead. This roundtable discussion will delve deep into the current and future direction of DB pension schemes, focusing on the critical aspects of governance, decision-making, stakeholder management and strategic partnerships with asset managers.
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Fees
free for members and non-members -
3
speakers -
4
of CPD -
In Person
The Ivy, City Garden, London
Event Details
THE BASICS
Topics of discussion:
What’s changed in the pensions landscape and how does that effect decision making structures:
Different governance models within schemes
- How to make decisions
- Different stakeholders involved
- Roles and responsibilities
- Case study examples
Partnering with an asset manager for a solution
- Pension schemes are doing more with fewer managers
- Pension Scheme Managers
- Trustees
- Administrators
- Policy advisers
- Consultants
- Lawyers
- Corporate IFAs
- Investment managers
- Actuaries
- Communication professionals
The Ivy, City Garden, London
Roundtable hosts:
Devan Nathwani FIA, Vice President, is a member of the Portfolio Research team in the BlackRock Investment Institute. The team is responsible for developing the core principles and intellectual property that underpin BlackRock's approach to portfolio design, such as capital market assumptions and optimization tools.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2022, Devan worked at SECOR Asset Management, where he was an Investment Strategist responsible for advising pension funds and other institutional clients on their strategic asset allocation and liability hedging arrangements. Prior to this, he began his career at Aon Hewitt in 2012 where he spent time in the Pensions Actuarial and Fiduciary Management teams.
Devan holds a masters degree in Actuarial Finance from Imperial College Business School, a bachelors degree in Mathematics and Statistical Science from University College London (UCL) and is a qualified actuary.
