• The increase in outsourcing in pensions over the past decade is well known
• In this session we examine the outsourcing trend and the factors and considerations that drive it, with a particular focus on DC and CDC pensions

The Mansion House Pensions Investment Review has driven a renewed momentum for Defined Contribution (DC) schemes to invest in long-term, productive assets such as infrastructure. With increasing policy backing and industry attention, DC schemes are being urged to play a larger role in supporting the economy. IFM Investors and L&G will share insights on the role of infrastructure in diversified DC portfolios, how it can contribute to member outcomes, and why collaboration between aligned institutional investors is critical to achieving scale and access. The session will offer an informed perspective on how DC schemes can play a more active role in the UK’s infrastructure future including:

• What the Mansion House Pensions Investment Review means for DC schemes and infrastructure
• Explore the case for infrastructure in DC portfolios—from diversification to long-term value
• Hear from IFM Investors and LGIM on mobilising DC capital for productive investment
• Understand the role of strategic partnerships in delivering scale and access for DC

The retirement landscape is changing as the industry shifts from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans. Members now face increasing responsibility in the choices they make pre-retirement on how best to use their pensions. How, therefore, should trustees prepare to support members as they approach retirement and decumulation?

This session will address:

• What are member needs in retirement and how are they feeling as they approach retirement
• How the regulator wants trustees to support members at retirement
• What are the available decumulation or post-retirement investment frameworks, should lifestyling be the default?

In this session, we’ll explore how resilient DC portfolios currently are and need to be, and three particular risks and actions that schemes can take to improve the resilience of member outcomes:

• capital allocations to private markets and low-cost equity strategies to manage risk and cost through time and the challenges and benefits of allocations to both;
• climate risk and how private market investments can help lower and offset emissions from listed assets; and
• continuity to and through retirement to diversify risk and ensure outcomes are maximised.

No session is scheduled in this stream at this time. Please attend a session in one of the other three streams