The 212 delegates, representing contributing employers and trade unions, attending Strathclyde Pension Fund’s annual meeting on Friday 20 June voted the annual meeting a great success.
Feedback questionnaires from the delegates rated the annual meeting very highly, with Tim Hazelwood’s presentation about implementing the new local government pension scheme (LGPS) on 1 April 2009 receiving a particularly favourable response.
A full set of the slides used at the meeting, together with a list of delegates and biographies of the speakers, is available by clicking on Annual Meeting 2008.
From a contributing employer’s perspective:
· The planning assumption for employer contribution rates for the next three years commencing 1 April 2009 are 295%, 310% and 330%.
· The investment strategy looks robust against a background of difficult market conditions.
· The Fund is devoting significant resource to data cleansing.
· The main workstreams needed for the new LGPS have been fleshed out.
Annual meeting organiser, Doreen Shannon, picked out two comments from the feedback questionnaires to sum up the event:
· “An excellent speaker who makes pensions fun”.
· “I could listen to the Professor all day”.