All Investment articles – Page 57
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Scottish Widows looks to overcome long-term market challenges
Scottish Widows has announced plans to enhance its asset allocation strategy in response to lower projected returns and potentially long-lasting volatility as a result of the coronavirus crisis, following a strategic review conducted earlier this year.
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OpinionPension funds face a dilemma if negative rates materialise
The era of low interest rates has created challenges for trustees that could become acute and require redress if low interest rates become negative, writes Pavan Bhardwaj of Ross Trustees.
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Lords commit TPR to preserving open DB schemes
The House of Lords has amended the pension schemes bill to ensure that open defined benefit schemes are not forced to derisk their investments in the same way as closed plans, in one of four defeats suffered by the government.
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OpinionHow fiduciary management performance should really be assessed
Trying to draw inferences about fiduciary managers by comparing their growth funds grossly misses the point – to outperform liabilities – of these mandates, argues IC Select’s Anne-Marie Gillon.
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Lockdown sees third of savers taking action on pensions
Data crunch: Seven million people, representing more than a third of savers, have taken action relating to their pensions during the coronavirus lockdown, with almost one in three reviewing their spending habits more often, according to analysis by Aviva.
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How can schemes make ESG compliance meaningful?
Analysis: The UK pension industry’s first attempt at compliance with new sustainability reporting rules has left campaigners unimpressed, to say the very least.
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Change in direction for McClymont in surprise job move
In something of a shock move, Gregg McClymont, a former Labour shadow pensions minister, starts a new role at IFM Investors in July as its executive director of public affairs for Europe.
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Seven-year scam poses ‘serious questions’ for TPR
The Pensions Ombudsman has finally brought to a close a seven-year case that left members of three pension schemes looking to recoup losses in excess of £14m. However, questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the Pensions Regulator in this case.
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Lords’ climate amendment could dilute trustee power
An amendment to climate risk provisions in the pension schemes bill could force schemes to align their investment strategies with the Paris agreement, going one step further than the government’s own provisions for reporting against sustainability criteria.
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2020 set to be a record-breaking year for longevity swaps
On the go: Demand for longevity swaps is expected to set new records in 2020, reflecting in part a slight slowdown in the bulk annuity market, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson.
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Aviva strikes £150m buy-in with General Healthcare Group
On the go: Insurer Aviva has secured a £150m buy-in contract with the General Healthcare Group & Life Assurance Plan.
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Are pensions the answer to UK’s £1tn infrastructure gap?
A solution for the regeneration of Britain’s infrastructure could come from pensions, as superfunds could help plug the UK’s £1tn infrastructure gap. However, specialists believe it will be difficult for schemes to achieve the scale needed for these investments to be successful.
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Blow to investors as TPR rules risk further dividend drought
On the go: New guidance from the Pensions Regulator could prolong the “dividend drought” currently hampering income investors, experts have warned.
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OpinionUpside down: why trustees should be wary of unexpected outperformance
Firing a shot across the bows of industry peers, Kempen’s Nikesh Patel argues that trustees should be sceptical of fiduciary managers delivering significantly greater returns than expected when times are good.
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London boroughs add real assets income fund
On the go: The investment pool for London’s Local Government Pension Scheme partner funds has launched a new real assets fund aiming to steadily outstrip inflation, with seed money from the boroughs of Redbridge and Bexley.
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Pandemics, climate change pose ‘systemic risks’ to actuarial work
On the go: Global pandemics and the threat of a climate catastrophe present dire risks to the quality of actuarial work, according to a new report by the Joint Forum on Actuarial Regulation.
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Fiduciary managers outperform during coronavirus crisis
Analysis: A year after emerging from the scrutiny of the Competition and Markets Authority, fiduciary managers are now embracing transparency to advertise outperformance of traditional advised defined benefit schemes.
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OpinionEconomies of scale: do they exist?
Data crunch: Does size matter? Many fund products come with tiered fee structures, leading to the mantra that the larger the mandate, the lower the unit cost.
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Regulator to issue rules for consolidators ‘in the coming weeks’
The Pensions Regulator is shortly to issue interim regulation covering commercial consolidators, Pensions Expert can reveal.
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Lockdown spikes fears of democratic deficit in LGPS
As the Covid-19 crisis unfolds, there could be a worrying governance and democratic deficit in some local authority pension schemes, with only 27 per cent of councils having virtual pension committee meetings.