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Event Details - IAPF Spring Conference 2025

When: 13/03/2025 for 8.30am for 9.00am to 1pm followed by lunch
Where: The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin
Cost: IAPF Member - Pension Scheme Representative (Non Practitioner): Free of Charge, IAPF Member - Practitioner (Organisations that provide professional services to pension funds): €295, Non Members: €450,

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Introduction

The IAPF Spring Conference 2025 will bring together over 200 trustees, Pensions, HR and finance managers, policymakers and service providers to consider and discuss issues facing pension schemes today.

 

CPD

This event has been allocated CPD hours by the IAPF for on-going trustee training requirements. We received 1 CPD hour in category  Pensions and 2 hours in category Savings & Investment from the LIA (LIA03087_2025), IOB (pending) and the IIPM.

Agenda

 

Timetable 

| IAPF Spring Conference   |   9:00am - 13:00pm  |  Thursday 13 March

 


8:30am

9:00am


Delegate registration 
Buffet breakfast

Welcome 
Conference Chair - Liam Stack, Chairperson IAPF Investment Committee/Aberdeen Investments

 

 

Pensions Outlook
Brendan Kennedy, Pensions Authority
Brendan’s presentation will reflect on the findings of the supervisory reviews carried out by the Pensions Authority in 2024 and discuss the role and expectations of trustees post IORP II.

 

 

Is Sustainability at an Inflection Point?
Shally Shanker, Founder & Managing Partner, AiiM Partners, Ger Fitzgerald, Head of Investment Strategy at Unio Financial Services Limited, Tony Fleming, IAPF Council, Trustee, EirGrid Pension Fund
With political pressure on sustainable investment in the US, this panel will look at what that means on the ground in the US, any impact Irish pension funds and how they should think about sustainable investment.

 

 

Investing in a Trump World
Des Lawrence, Senior Investment Strategist, Investment Strategy & Research EMEA
State Street Global Advisors



 

10:40am

Coffee Break

 

11:10am



Welcome Back 
Conference Chair - Ciara Quinn, Pension Investment Analyst, Enterprise Services, ESB | IAPF Pensions Committee

 

 

Benefits of genuine active management in a non-pacifist world
Pearse MacManus, Director of Asset Management – Head of Macro and Risk Analysis
Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management

 

 

 

Retirement Living Standards
Deirdre Cummins, Chair, Pensions Council Joanne Roche, The Pensions Council
Deirdre & Joanne will speak on the Pensions Council’s work on developing a set of retirement living standards that reflect the needs and aspirations of older people in Ireland

 

 

Things Trustees Should Focus On
Orla Aherne, Investment Consultant,  Mercer, Alcarine Power, Head of Pension Risk Management, Aon, Eleanor Cunningham, IAPF Council, Partner,  McCann FitzGerald

3 experts will each take a topic that trustees should focus on in 2025. Orla Aherne will look at an investment topic, Alcaraine Power will consider an operational topic and Eleanor Cunningham a legal topic

 

1:00pm 

Lunch

 

1:30pm

Ends

 

 

Time table is subject to change

 

 

 

Speakers

click on image for biography Liam Stack
IAPF Council
click on image for biography Brendan Kennedy
Pensions Authority
click on image for biography Shally Shanker
AiiM Partners
click on image for biography Tony Fleming
EirGrid Pension Fund
click on image for biography Ger Fitzgerald
Unio Wealth Mangement
click on image for biography Des Lawrence
State Street Global Advisors
click on image for biography Ciara Quinn
IAPF Pensions Committee
click on image for biography Pearse MacManus
Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management Europe
click on image for biography Deirdre Cummins
Chair, Pensions Council
click on image for biography Joanne Roche
The Pensions Council
click on image for biography Alcarine Power
Aon
click on image for biography Orla Aherne
Mercer
click on image for biography Eleanor Cunningham
IAPF Council
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