Plan the remediation route when a weakness in pension fund investment is identified.
Managing Pension Funds and Long-Term Investment Strategies
Turn pension fund investment from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
Capital, liquidity and reputation are all exposed by weak handling of pension fund investment. Growth built on poorly controlled the financial and banking practice discipline reverses faster than it accumulated. They leave able to brief senior management on this strand of financial and banking practice in terms that support a decision. The programme takes participants through pension fund investment end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make the financial and banking practice discipline hard in practice. The level assumes working familiarity with the business line but no prior formal training in this part of financial and banking practice. Organisations that document pension fund investment properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The difficulty is not agreeing that the financial and banking practice capability matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The programme closes with an action plan for the wider financial and banking practice agenda that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Select indicators that show whether pension fund investment is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Design the reporting on pension fund investment that reaches decision makers in time to act.
Estimate what pension fund investment costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Design reconciliation and settlement controls covering pension fund investment.
Document the approval chain for exceptions to policy on pension fund investment.
Set a realistic target state for pension fund investment and a defensible route to it.
Who Should Attend
Regulatory reporting analysts covering pension fund investment.
Compliance officers overseeing pension fund investment.
Internal auditors reviewing the controls around pension fund investment.
Business partners who must understand pension fund investment well enough to challenge it.
Operations staff executing and settling pension fund investment.
Newly appointed managers taking on pension fund investment for the first time.
Course Modules
Pension fund investment: the control framework and segregation of duties
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in pension fund investment and how to reason about them
- Draft the minimum viable control framework for pension fund investment.
- Identify the key controls over pension fund investment and who tests them.
- Benchmark the organisation's pension fund investment against comparable operations.
- Close out actions on pension fund investment rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Session 2Stress scenarios for pension fund investment that are plausible rather than convenient
- Establish what evidence demonstrates pension fund investment is under control.
- Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of pension fund investment.
- Review the pricing of pension fund investment against the risk being assumed.
- Set the review interval for pension fund investment and who attends.
Pension fund investment: risk appetite, limits and policy
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Concentration building quietly inside pension fund investment
- Agree the indicators that will show whether pension fund investment is improving.
- State the risk appetite for pension fund investment as a number, not an adjective.
- Check the legal and contractual exposure created by pension fund investment.
- List the assumptions in any model supporting pension fund investment and when each was last challenged.
Session 2What pension fund investment does to capital and liquidity under stress
- Confirm reporting on pension fund investment reaches the committee that can act on it.
- Check the accounting treatment applied to pension fund investment against current standards.
- Confirm regulatory reporting on pension fund investment is complete, timely and reconciled.
- Test pension fund investment against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
Pension fund investment: reporting that supports a decision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Evidencing that pension fund investment worked as designed
- Confirm client due diligence standards applied to pension fund investment are current.
- Arrange the handover of pension fund investment so capability survives staff changes.
- Check that pension fund investment still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating pension fund investment operated as designed.
Session 2Who answers for pension fund investment, and to whom
- Remove steps in pension fund investment that add effort without adding assurance.
- Record what was learned when pension fund investment did not go as planned.
- Agree who signs off pension fund investment and record that they did.
- Agree the smallest change to pension fund investment that would be visibly useful.
Pension fund investment: pricing, profitability and risk-adjusted return
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Pricing pension fund investment for the risk actually taken
- Translate the appetite for pension fund investment into limits someone monitors daily.
- Prepare the summary of pension fund investment that senior management will read.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about pension fund investment.
- Assess the capital consumed by pension fund investment under current and stressed conditions.
Session 2Making pension fund investment work when resources are constrained
- Confirm that those complying with pension fund investment understand why it exists.
- Reduce the variation in how pension fund investment is carried out between teams.
- Identify where judgement in pension fund investment is legitimate and where it is not.
- Set early warning indicators for pension fund investment with defined action thresholds.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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