Event Details - IAPF Summer Conference

When: 27/05/2025 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,

Sponsored By

 
Irish Life and DWS

Introduction

The IAPF Summer 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

IAPF Summer Conference 2024

CPD

This event will be allocated CPD hours by the IAPF for on-going trustee training requirements. We will apply for CPD hours and PTP hours from the LIA, IOB and the IIPM.

Agenda

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS CONFIRMED - MORE TO FOLLOW

 

Beyond Compliance: Creating Value-Driven Auto-Enrolment Experiences for Employees As pensions enter a new era with the introduction of Auto-enrolment, we explore how employers can go beyond compliance to create meaningful benefits for their employees. Our presentation will highlight an employee-centric approach to meeting Auto-enrolment obligations, turning a regulatory requirement into an opportunity to enhance employee financial well-being. We’ll also share key insights from our latest independent research.  Shane O’Farrell, Irish Life

 

Tariffs and Beyond: Risks and Opportunities in European Real Estate The presentation will focus on key macroeconomic events from German fiscal stimulus to US tariffs, with a deep dive into the implications for the real estate market.   Simon Wallace, Global Co-Head of Real Estate Research & Head of the UK Real Estate Group, DWS

 

Benefits and Pitfalls of the AE journey that lies ahead in Ireland  A talk and Q&A from the Minister who took UK Automatic Enrolment to 8% and reformed DB.  The benefits and mistakes that were made with AE rollout, the wider implications on DB, the demise of corporate pensions and the rise of master trusts. To include a discussion on the comms plan needed to sell Irish pensions to Irish people given the tax changes. And how does government handle industry and industry deal with government, whatever their political persuasion going forward. A brief discussion on decumulation, infrastructure investing, dashboards, employee benefits and more.  Guy Opperman, former UK Pensions Minister 

 

Pensions Authority – direction of travel for the next 5 years Brendan Kennedy the Pensions Regulator will outline the Authority’s 5 year strategy and share progress on the Authority’s reform programme and will outline the next steps in consolidation, the ongoing roll out of SRPs and the development of a data strategy. Brendan Kennedy, Pensions Regulator

Speakers

click on image for biography Shane O’Farrell
Irish Life
click on image for biography Simon Wallace
DWS
click on image for biography Guy Opperman
UK Pensions Minister from 2017-2022.
click on image for biography Brendan Kennedy
Pensions Authority

Booking

Pension Fund Representatives (Non-Practitioner) : Free of Charge

Practitioner: €295.00 per person
(Organisations that provide professional services to pension funds)

Non Member: €450.00 per person

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