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FUTURE

CONFERENCES

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OUR CONFERENCES

OUR SPEAKERS

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Mike Smaje

Trustee Executive

BESTrustees

Mike joined BESTrustees early in 2020. He has over 28 years’ pensions experience, as a Scheme Actuary and Investment Consultant on both corporate and trustee assignments. He currently represents BESTrustees on seven pension schemes, including two where he acts as Chair.

Mike has worked with trustee boards for his whole career, and has experience working with many governance models, such as common investment funds, sole trusteeships and implementation of fiduciary management, where he has in-depth provider experience. He has worked with schemes of all sizes, from very small to several £billions, across many sectors including major global corporations and SMEs.

He has worked on several liability management transactions, including member options exercises, scheme wind-ups, buy-outs, buy-ins and longevity swaps as well as many M&A transactions.

Mike was an Investment Partner at Aon for two years and prior to that he spent 19 years with Willis Towers Watson. He also spent two years working for a leading global investment manager, helping them to build an innovative LDI proposition. He is a fully Accredited Member of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees (APPT).

Mike specialises in Investment matters and Integrated Risk Management. He is a very strong communicator, with a collaborative and pragmatic approach to balancing the interests of all parties.

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SPS Local Authority Pension Funds' ESG & Current Issues Conference
October 22, 2024
The View at the Royal College of Surgeons, London
SPS Nordic Institutional Investors' Annual Conference, Stockholm
November 13, 2024
7A Strandvägen, Stockholm
SPS DC Pension Funds Update
December 3. 2024
Farmers and Fletchers in the City, London
SPS Belgian Pension Fund and Institutional Investors Summit, Ghent
January 14. 2025
Ghent Marriott Hotel, Ghent
SPS Alternative and Real Asset Investments Conference
February 12. 2025
Farmers and Fletchers in the City, London
SPS Local Authority Pension Funds' Annual Investment Conference
March 4. 2025
Farmers and Fletchers in the City, London
SPS Annual Nordic Investment Conference, Copenhagen
March 25. 2025
Radisson Collection Royal Hotel, Copenhagen
SPS Swiss Institutional Investors' Summit
April 10. 2025
Zurich
SPS Nordic Sustainable Investment Conference, Stockholm
May14. 2025
7A Strandvägen, Stockholm
SPS Irish Pension Funds' Annual Investment and Current Issues
June 11. 2025
Dublin
SPS Investment Strategies for Institutional Investors Conference
June 19. 2025
London
SPS Fiduciary, OCIO and Investment Governance Conference
July 10. 2025
Farmers and Fletchers in the City, London
SPS Dutch Institutional Investors' Annual Conference
September 16. 2025
Amsterdam
SPS Nordic Institutional Investors' Summit, Helsinki
September 25. 2025
Helsinki
SPS Local Authority Pension Funds' Topical Issues and Sustainable Investment Conference
October 22. 2025
London
SPS Nordic Institutional Investors' Annual Conference, Stockholm
November 5. 2025
7A Strandvägen, Stockholm
SPS Current Investment Issues Conference
November 19. 2025
Farmers and Fletchers in the City, London
SPS DC Pension Funds Update
December 3. 2025
London
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