The Weekly Wrap: July 18 edition

A round-up of pensions and investment stories published across the FT Group – from schemes pouring money into alternative assets, to Philadelphia's attempts to shore up its underfunded pension plan.

Plus the week in numbers:

• Institutional investors have invested £596.5bn in direct property
• Assets managed by the 100 biggest alternative fund groups rose by 6%
• Almost 15m people could be actively saving in private sector pension schemes by 2030

Most read on pensions-expert.com

• Webb: Pension reform far from over
• Could IORP II be the end of the road for lay trustees?
• Local government schemes reject forced passive CIV proposals
• Conflict is good: What your trustee board could learn from Amazon
• Are iPads harming or helping trustee boards? The cases for and against tablet governance

In this week's social media comment Money Box's Paul Lewis takes on the pensions minister.

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