Sponsors

Federated Hermes is guided by the conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create long-term wealth. We provide specialised capabilities across equity, fixed income and private markets, in addition to multi-asset strategies and liquidity-management. Through pioneering stewardship services, we engage companies on strategic and sustainability concerns to promote investors’ long-term performance and fiduciary interests. Our goals are to help people invest and retire better, to help clients achieve better risk-adjusted returns and, where possible, to contribute to positive outcomes that benefit the wider world.

Isio is a leading independent UK provider of actuarial & consulting, pensions administration, investment advisory, employee reward & benefits and wealth planning. With a national team of over 1,000 people across ten regional hubs, Isio is committed to promoting financial wellbeing for all and works with companies, trustees and individuals to help them make informed decisions to protect their financial future. 

We fuse human expertise with powerful analytics to shape a more positive future. LCP has market leading capabilities across pensions and financial services, energy, health and analytics. We use our breadth of knowledge and skills to help our clients solve problems and embrace opportunities. With in our Pensions endgame strategy, we help trustees and sponsors of pension schemes understand and manage the costs, risks, timeframes, and opportunities associated with different pensions endgame strategies. This strategy could be targeting run-off or, at the appropriate time, transferring the scheme to a third party such as an insurer or superfund. LCP are uniquely placed in the market to best advise you on your pensions endgame, covering all angles from buy-ins and buy-outs, run-off, capital backed solutions, and more.

Pendragon provides Perspective, the innovative and highly acclaimed legal and regulatory information service for the UK pensions industry. Organisations across the whole spectrum of pensions - funds, advisers, regulators and trustees - have come to rely on Perspective. Perspective’s content is updated several times a day and includes Acts, SIs, regulatory materials (PPF, The Pensions Regulator, HMRC etc), EU documents, law reports, Ombudsman determinations, news, parliamentary coverage, commentary, reports, statistics and surveys. Perspective’s functionality is unrivalled. Key features include cross-referencing between documents, our 'time-travel' facility (allows users to view a document as it appeared at any date in the past or future) and searching. Users are made aware of developments within the industry through document and news alerts.

Standard Life is a brand that has been trusted to look after people’s savings and retirement needs for nearly 200 years. We’re part of Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We share an aligned ambition to help every customer enjoy a life full of possibilities. People are living longer and we can support them at every step in their financial future. We know we can’t achieve this without doing our part to build a strong and sustainable future. It’s why we are integrating sustainability into everything we do; from incorporating responsible investing into our solutions, to fostering an inclusive savings culture and improving financial wellbeing for all. Standard Life’s Defined Benefit Solutions support us on this mission, providing tailored bulk annuity solutions to DB pension schemes. We pride ourselves on thinking outside the box, finding innovative solutions to meet the needs of our clients.