The £31.2mn Barnett & Hall Holdings Pension Scheme has secured a circa £21mn buy-in with Legal & General Assurance Society ahead of a potential future buyout.

On the go: The £988.7mn De La Rue Pension Scheme has agreed a £320mn buy-in with insurer Scottish Widows.

On the go: The House of Fraser Beatties & Jenners Pension Scheme has completed a £600mn buyout with Pension Insurance Corporation, covering 3,850 deferred members and 5,050 pensioners.

On the go: The £285mn Cleveland Potash Pension Schemes has appointed Willis Towers Watson’s OneDB to provide combined actuarial, fiduciary management and administrative services.

ESG spotlight: A roundup of the latest news on environmental, social and governance initiatives, including investment in sustainable private credit by the £4.3bn Environment Agency Pension Fund, nearly three-quarters of schemes set to have net zero plans, and a pair of ESG guides issued for trustees.

On the go: The £57.5bn BT Pension Scheme, via Federated Hermes, has sold part of its stake in the engineering and technology business park Silverstone Park to the $550.4bn (£342.6bn) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

On the go: The £57.5bn BT Pension Scheme has awarded a $1bn (£801.4mn) private equity mandate to Hermes GPE, further building on two previous private equity investments with the manager.

On the go: The £36bn Border to Coast Pensions Partnership, which handles the assets of 11 Local Government Pension Scheme funds worth a collective £55bn, has launched the second series of its private markets programme, which includes a dedicated climate opportunities offering.

On the go: Alstom UK’s Common Investment Fund has appointed Mercer to provide fiduciary management services for three of its defined benefit schemes with assets totalling £1.6bn.

On the go: The Aon MasterTrust and Group Personal Pension Plan made a £700mn investment in February 2022 to a new climate transition fund co-developed and co-launched by the consultancy and UBS Asset Management.