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NewsLGPS expected to join Sterling 20 initiative next year
Senior members of the LGPS, including representatives of the Local Pensions Partnership Investments and LGPS Central pools, attended the government’s inaugural Regional Investment Summit this week.
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NewsNest backs UK businesses through Schroders and IFM commitments
The master trust has allocated to UK private equity through an expanded partnership with Schroders Capital, and has begun deploying money through its arrangement with IFM Investors into UK infrastructure-related businesses.
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NewsUK’s largest pension funds back regional investment drive through ‘Sterling 20’
The move builds on the Mansion House Accord agreed in July, and will be launched at the government’s inaugural Regional Investment Summit in Birmingham.
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ArticlePrivate Assets in Focus: What UK Pension Schemes Are Thinking
To ‘take the temperature’ of the industry as it prepares for significant changes, Pensions Expert, in partnership with CACEIS, surveyed representatives from across the pensions sector on private assets and consolidation.
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NewsHow allocators are reassessing defence sector investments
Asset managers have been increasing the amount they invest in defence-related companies in the past three years, says Morningstar – with even ESG funds reassessing their approaches.
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NewsPrivate markets to hit $24trn in value globally by 2030
Pension funds are expected to drive the continuing growth of private markets assets, with infrastructure and private debt expected to overtake real estate in value globally.
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FeaturesPension funds, venture capital, and the government’s drive for growth
Despite a big push from the government to encourage greater pension investment into UK alternatives, there seems to be little initial activity from pension funds in relation to venture capital investing.
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NewsWhat European pension funds can teach the UK about VC investing
Research by Pensions for Purpose and European Women in VC has laid out how UK and European pension funds currently allocate to venture capital, with chancellor Rachel Reeves calling for schemes to become “active builders of our economy”.
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NewsAviva launches ‘innovative’ private market default strategy for DC savers
Aviva is stepping up its investment in private markets with a new defined contribution default strategy targeting up to 25% in unlisted assets.
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NewsEndgame options driving fiduciary management’s ‘evolution’, report shows
Large outsourcing agreements are helping to offset the pipeline of DB pension schemes heading for buyout, according to Quantum Advisory, as trustees weigh up more endgame options.
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NewsWhy asset owners are rethinking US allocations
Research by Morningstar has shown that asset owners around the world are reviewing their exposures to the US economy due to currency risk, policy uncertainty, and trade tariffs.
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NewsDC charges continue to fall amid push to value over cost
WTW’s latest annual DC Pensions and Savings Survey has found that the average charge has fallen from 38bps in 2017 to 28bps this year, with almost two thirds of schemes now charging less than 30bps a year.
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FeaturesThree years since ‘mini-Budget’: Healthier schemes but more challenges ahead
Three years on from the drama of the so-called ‘mini-Budget’, Pensions Expert looks back on events and what has changed – as well as looking to where the next big challenges could come from.
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NewsTPR: DB schemes must embrace opportunities of Pension Schemes Bill
Speaking at the Pensions Expert DB Strategic Summit this week, TPR’s David Walmsley urged delegates to embrace the opportunities of reforms currently being developed, including through the Pension Schemes Bill.
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NewsCould a funded state pension ‘megafund’ help boost UK growth?
A new report from think tank The Purposeful Company calls for the creation of a £100bn funded state pension to solve affordability issues and back UK businesses.
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NewsPrivate debt managers brace for consolidation amid regulatory and operational strain
Almost all private debt managers expect a wave of industry consolidation within five years, according to new research from Carne Group.
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NewsLGPS pools back report calling for local investment framework and standards
The report, published by impact advisory firm The Good Economy, was commissioned in response to the government’s drive for pension schemes to invest more in the UK.
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NewsShell outsources pension investment to Goldman in $40bn multi-country deal
The oil giant’s £11.1bn UK pension fund is one of several involved in an international fiduciary management mandate – one of the biggest ever awarded.
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NewsConsultants ramp up governance services for DB schemes
Barnett Waddingham and Hymans Robertson are the latest consultancies to add to the menu of options for defined benefit pension schemes.
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NewsGovernment to remove LGPS investment power from Pension Schemes Bill
The government has proposed to remove a paragraph in the Pension Schemes Bill that would have given it the power to direct investments by LGPS asset pools.