SPP Conference 2025: In Person Conference Close
In association with Professional Pensions
A&O Shearman, London (in-person only)
Thursday 25 September 2025
13:30-18:00
We are delighted to invite you to the concluding event of the SPP’s 2025 Conference, in association with Professional Pensions, being hosted in-person only at the London office of A&O Shearman.
This session will feature two panel discussions – the first of these with TPR, looking at the future of DB and DC, with the second discussion looking at pensions schemes at a macroeconomic level.
Panel Discussion with The Pensions Regulator
TPR Bod 1
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TPR Bod 2
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DB Expert from the Membership
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Sophia Singleton, SPP President And Head Of DC, XPS Pensions Group (Chair)
Sophia is a partner and Head of DC at XPS Pensions Group. She has over 25 years’ experience in the UK pensions industry and advises corporates and trustees across all areas of their DC schemes including optimising benefit design, developing investment solutions, improving member engagement and ensuring effective scheme governance.
Macroeconomic Panel
Tim Leunig, Chief Economist, NESTA
Tim is a multiple international prize winning economist. He has taught at LSE for more than 25 years and served as economic advisor to two Chancellors. He currently works as Chief Economist at the Social Innovation Agency NESTA, and writes a monthly column for the Observer.
Callum Duffy, Senior Solution Designer, Insight Investment
Callum joined Insight in April 2019 and is a Solution Designer in the Client Solutions Group. Callum works on the design and delivery of investment solutions tailored to address the specific risk and return objectives of Insight’s clients. Prior to joining Insight, Callum spent over six years at KPMG as an investment consultant. Here, he helped with the design and implementation of investment strategies for defined benefit pension schemes. He was also co-head of investment strategy research and a member of the LDI and ALM research teams. Callum graduated from the University of Warwick with an MMath (first) in Mathematics. He is also a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK (FIA).
Joanna Sharples, CIO, DC Solutions, Aon
Joanna is a Partner in Aon’s Investment Practice and Chief Investment Officer for Aon’s DC Solutions. She is responsible for the investment funds offered to members through Aon’s DC Solutions including The Aon MasterTrust and GPP. I really enjoy what I do and feel privileged to look after our members pensions – investing well makes a huge difference to how much money people have when they come to retire. She also leads the development of Aon’s house views around DC investments, in particular default and lifestyle strategies, and sit on Aon’s UK DC Investment Committee.
Steve Hull, Partner, Burges Salmon LLP (Chair)
Steve is a Pensions Partner at Burges Salmon with over 35 years’ experience, recognised in the leading client guides to law firms (Chambers & Partners and Legal 500) as a leading pensions lawyer.
Steve advises trustees and sponsoring employers on all aspects of pensions law in England and Wales, including the pensions aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, public and private company take-overs and private equity buy-outs, the pensions aspects of corporate restructurings, administrations and insolvencies, as well as on pension scheme restructurings.
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