Data crunch: The changing investment environment has forced deeper reviews among public sector funds than had been anticipated.  

Data crunch: MandateWire’s latest DealFlow report charts the growing momentum behind derisking solutions among UK corporate pension schemes.

On the go: The £11.8bn Co-operative Pension Scheme’s £2.1bn Bank Section has completed a full £1.2bn buy-in with Rothesay.

On the go: The circa £69.1mn Robinson & Sons Limited Pension Fund has agreed a full buy-in of its £44mn of pension scheme liabilities with Legal & General.

On the go: Railpen, the manager of the £35bn Railways Pension Scheme, has introduced new voting policies on cyber security, climate transition and biodiversity, and mental health for its 2023 annual meeting season.

On the go: The Agfa UK Group Pension Plan has completed a second annuity buy-in with Standard Life, covering the vast majority of the fund’s remaining liabilities.

On the go: The Medway Packaging Pension Scheme has completed a full buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation covering £52mn of liabilities.

On the go: The £6.9bn London Pensions Fund Authority has launched a transparency dashboard in partnership with fintech company Tumelo that displays a breakdown of its equity investments.

On the go: The circa £152.1mn defined benefit section of the Mencap Pension Plan has signed a £61mn bulk annuity transaction with Canada Life. 

Data crunch: Making a broad equity allocation without incorporating environmental, social and governance criteria is now almost anathema to local authority pension schemes, at least according to the data collected by MandateWire over the fourth quarter of 2021.