All Investment articles
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NewsLPPI creates portfolio group to strengthen investment oversight
Local Pensions Partnership Investments has brought together three existing investment teams under a new structure, alongside a dedicated analytics function.
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NewsScottish Widows to invest workplace pension savings in UK technology companies
Scottish Widows is backing British technology companies through a new venture growth mandate, with investments planned in quantum computing, battery technology and healthcare.
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NewsRailpen appoints external manager to £1bn global equities mandate
The arrangement will see Robeco operate the mandate alongside Railpen’s existing internal team, mirroring arrangements that the pension scheme already employs in other asset classes.
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NewsBudget 2026: Markets sanguine as chancellor errs on side of caution
Financial markets remained sanguine following chancellor John Healey’s Budget speech as he pledged to maintain fiscal discipline and did not reveal any major surprise announcements.
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NewsFCA warns private market firms over conflicts of interest
The Financial Conduct Authority has identified weaknesses in how private market firms manage conflicts of interest, warning that controls are failing to keep pace with increasingly complex business models.
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OpinionPeople’s Pension: What kind of institution are we building?
Dan Mikulskis, chief investment officer at People’s Pension, explores key qualities of successful large asset owners from the master trust’s own research, as UK institutions continue to seek scale and greater investment capabilities.
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NewsTrustees must monitor AI risks building in investment portfolios, says TPR
The Pensions Regulator has published new guidance to assist trustees with identifying and managing “potential hidden AI-related investment exposure”.
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NewsMansion House: DC providers make progress with UK holdings hitting £11bn
The 17 signatories to the Mansion House Accord have allocated 6.6% of total DC growth-phase assets to private markets as of 31 December 2025, according to new data.
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NewsUK has an ‘investability problem’, not a pension capital problem
Policymakers must focus on creating attractive investment opportunities rather than setting allocation targets if they want to unlock pension capital for UK private markets, according to PMI chair Ruston Smith.
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OpinionBuilding blocks: How tokenisation could reshape DC pensions
Louise Farrand, executive director of the DC Investment Forum, explores how blockchain and tokenisation technologies could revolutionise pension scheme investing.
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OpinionWhy resilience should define pension scheme investment strategy in an uncertain world
Brightwell chief executive officer Morten Nilsson outlines the importance of resilience and understanding how risk management has changed as the wider investment universe has shifted.
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NewsFiduciary duty: Trustees urged to make best decisions, not ‘least challengeable’
Proposed guidance will not replace or alter the underlying principles of trustees’ fiduciary duty but will instead give trustees more clarity on what they can take into account when making investment decisions.
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NewsRetirees ‘could lose out’ through guided retirement without strong defaults
As policymakers continue to develop legislation around guided retirement and default solutions, behavioural research indicates that care must be taken in product design.
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NewsLack of opportunities still an issue in private markets, says TPR
Stakeholders surveyed by the regulator identified a lack of investable UK opportunities with the right characteristics as a critical barrier to delivering the ambitions of the Mansion House Accord.
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NewsPension schemes seek to tell the ‘stories’ behind infrastructure investing
More than four in five (82%) investors want to know more about how their pension was invested in infrastructure, according to research commissioned by Nest, Border to Coast, and IFM Investors.
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NewsXPS urges fiduciary manager reviews as more DB schemes consider run-on
Improved funding levels and changing DB endgames are altering what schemes need from their fiduciary managers, according to XPS Group.
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NewsInvestment latest: USS acquires rail company; Insight nets £1bn mandate
USS has agreed to take over a rail freight company, while Insight is to help facilitate surplus sharing through a £1bn mandate with an unnamed DB pension scheme.
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NewsGovernment criticised over plans to allow online-only shareholder meetings
Attending shareholder meetings in person is “a vital shareholder right”, says the Governance for Growth Investor Campaign, arguing against allowing companies to host “virtual AGMs”.
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NewsDB running costs up by a third – and size is no protection, data shows
Data from TPT Retirement Solutions shows legal, admin, governance, and data-related fees are among the drivers of year-on-year increases – and size is no protection against rising costs.
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PodcastsThe LGPS Interviews: Max Townshend, Local Pensions Partnership Investments
Max Townshend, head of investment strategy at Local Pensions Partnership Investments, talks to Tom Parker about the LGPS pool’s recent expansion and how this has affected its investment operations and strategy.