The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has seen a 40 per cent rise in the number of policy papers published this year, an increase from five guides and thought leadership pieces in 2023, to seven in 2024, its 2024/25 review has revealed.

These guides included thought leadership papers on topics such as pensions tax relief, the Defined Benefit (DB) Funding Code, productive finance, and the lifetime provider model.

The organisation said these were widely acknowledged as making a "valuable" contribution to public policy debates, by the OBR, MPs, Peers, and regulators.

In 2024/25, the SPP regularly briefed 650 MPs and directly engaged with over 80 MPs and peers from all political parties on a diverse range of pensions-related issues, from tax issues to productive finance.

In addition to this, the SPP met with key ministers and members of the Work & Pensions Select Committee, attended All Party Parliamentary Group meetings in Parliament, and provided evidence to Parliamentary inquiries.

SPP also increased the number of events by 17 per cent and saw 32 per cent (6,000) more people attend its events, with 67 per cent of these being new attendees.

In 2025, the organisation has further expanded the offering of its events and will host in Bristol as well as Manchester and Scotland.

Its annual review also said that its early career professionals programme, which was founded in 2021, is well established and includes regular hybrid events aimed specifically at this cohort.

Since 2023, SPP’s networking initiative has seen less than 200 early career professionals establish connections and less than 35 different firms represented during the programme.

It also said that its social media activity has also grown considerably in 2024/25 with its LinkedIn following almost tripling to over 2,000 followers - primarily consisting of pension professionals.

Commenting on this, SPP president, Sophia Singleton, said: “It has been a strong year for the SPP, seeing considerable growth in our events programme, enhanced policy work from our committees, and a range of new initiatives for our early career professionals.

“This would not be possible without the expertise of our membership, whose collaboration, commitment, and breadth of professional perspective gives the SPP a unique capacity to positively impact the sector.”

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