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We're excited to introduce LCP Digest: August 2024 Edition, our monthly newsletter offering expert analysis and commentary on the latest trends in insurance, investment, and pensions.    In this edition we explore LCP's new tool to help widows and widowers check their pensions entitlements, new funding code and what is means for you, employee wellbeing report - LCP's recent survey of 10,000 employees across the UK, and insurance reserving report which features insights from 166 heads of reserving, chief actuaries, regulators, and other senior insurance leaders worldwide. 🔔 Subscribe now to stay updated and get LCP Digest directly in your inbox each month.

🔔 Join us on 5 September at 10 am for our Personal Lines Insurance webinar! Charl Cronje, Ed Harrison, Katie Garner, Richard York-Weaving and Annabel Carpenter will cover topics including: ✅ Motor market performance ✅ Managing the risks of the poverty/ethnicity premium ✅ Home market performance Register here: https://bit.ly/4cCzTrl

The pension landscape is shifting and with many schemes now better funded and considering options like buy-out or running on, understanding the role of covenant is more critical than ever. Join us for a webinar where we’ll explore the updated DB Funding Code of Practice and how covenant advice is adapting to today’s economic challenges. We'll share practical examples to help trustees and sponsors navigate these changes for better member outcomes. Register now: https://bit.ly/3YVR042

Don't miss our final episode of #InvestmentUncut S5, where Jacob Shah and Laasya Shekaran talk to Charlotte O'Leary, CEO of Pensions for Purpose, about assumptions in the world of investment that we need to challenge. Before this discussion, we reflect on our highlights of the series – discussing some of our favourite topics that were covered. Let us know in the comments if there are any key topics you would like to see covered in our next series! 🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4cyot7X

📣 New episode of Beyond Curious with LCP 📣 This week, David Fairs and Steve Webb talk to Chris Curry, Director of the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI). We cover everything from the government's pensions review to the reform of pension tax relief and the prospects for collective DC schemes! Listen now: https://lnkd.in/esME5Nk4 #BeyondCuriousLCP #podcasts

🗓️ It’s not too late to sign up for our webinar focusing on the results of the 2023 SHPS valuation. Make sure to join us on Wednesday 21 August when experts from LCP's social housing practice, Tim Gilbert and Mike Richardson, will discuss the first reduction in the deficit in a generation and the unprecedented drop in the cost of new benefits accruing. Register here: https://bit.ly/3SPprWc

What have schemes focussed on in the last year? Our survey of the DB pension market showed that more and more schemes are taking positive action on climate risk. Amongst schemes over £5bn, 90% now have a net zero target while medium to smaller schemes are also taking steps – the equivalent figure for schemes in the £500m-£1bn range is over 60%, and almost 40% for schemes below £500m. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/4eFvC8x

🔔 Just under a week to go until our webinar on the results of the 2023 SHPS valuation. Join LCP pensions experts, Tim Gilbert and Mike Richardson to understand what the results mean, and what you should do about it. Register here: https://bit.ly/3SPprWc

Fantastic news! The Women In Insurance Awards shortlist has been announced and we are so pleased to see four LCPers named as finalists - congratulations to Catherine Drummond, Jinita Shah, Laura Hobern and Wendy Kriz Evans 👏 We are are also delighted to be shortlisted for the Contribution to Inclusion Award and Gender Inclusion Network of the Year. A huge congratulations and good luck to all the finalists! See the full shortlist here: https://lnkd.in/eKBewHGb #WIIAwards #womenininsurance #womenininsuranceawards

We're thrilled to have Founder & Chairman of Signum Global Advisors Charles Myers taking the stage at our Investment Conference next month for his session: 'US elections, impact on markets and what global investors need to know' With 30 years of experience in global financial markets, Charles Myers brings unparalleled insights into global trade policy, energy dynamics and US political landscapes. Having advised figures like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, Charles' session is one you won't want to miss. Other agenda highlights: ✅ Eastern perspectives on the investment world | Yanmei Xie, GaveKal ✅ Future-proofing climate supply chains | Sophie Lu, HSBC Holdings ✅ Has SAA had its day? | Steve Hodder ✅ Have private markets adapted to the new world? | David Crofts, Mubadala Investment Company ✅ From geopolitics to astropolitics: what’s trending | Tim Marshall 📅 17 September 📍 Central London Secure your place 👉 https://bit.ly/3W13LqS