SPEAKER BIOGRAPHies

Alan Pickering Chair - Plumbing Industry Pension Scheme
Alan is Chairman of BESTrustees and a Trustee of a number of pension schemes. These include The Plumbing Industry Pension Scheme which he chairs and the People’s Pension. Alan chairs the governance group of the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme. He was a Trustee of the Kosovo Pensions Savings Trust between 2011 and 2015. Until February 2013, he chaired the financial literacy charity, Life Academy. He has served as a non-executive director of The Pensions Regulator having previously been a member of the Occupational Pensions Board. Alan is a past Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), now known as the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) and the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP). His Government sponsored report “A Simpler Way to Better Pensions” was published in July 2002. He is a member of the Rules Committee of the British Horseracing Authority and Vice President of the Racehorse Owners Association.
FUTURE
CONFERENCES
Nordic Institutional Investors' Conference
March 7, 2019 Copenhagen Marriott
Local Authority Pension Fund Investment Issues
March 13, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Annual Investment Strategies for Dutch Pension Funds
March 21, 2019 Apollo Hotel, Amsterdam
Fiduciary Management & Investment Governance for Pension Funds
April 10, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Annual DC Pension Investment Developments & Current Issues
April 17, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
ESG & Sustainable Investment Strategies for Pension Funds
May 9, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Irish Pension Fund Investment & Current Issues
June 11, 2019 Dublin
Infrastructure & Real Asset Investment Strategies for Pension Funds
June 18, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Investment Strategies & Cash Flow Management for Maturing Pension Funds
July 11, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Credit & Private Debt Investing for Pension Funds
September 5, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Alternative & Innovative Investment Strategies Conference for Pension Funds
September 12, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
ESG Investments & Issues for Dutch Pension Funds
September 24, 2019 Apollo Hotel, Amsterdam
Nordic Institutional Investors' Conference
October 3, 2019 7A Strandvägen, Stockholm
Property & Infrastructure Investment Strategies for Pension Funds
October 10, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Current Investment Issues for Pension Funds
November 7, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
ESG & Topical Investment Issues for Local Authority Pension Investors
November 14, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London
Annual Northern Investment Conference for Pension Funds
November 21, 2019 The Met Hotel, Leeds
Private Equity & Debt Investors' Annual Seminar
December 5, 2019 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London

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