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Always A Pensions Angle: Fixing it before it breaks
In this episode, Tom and Nick dive into the Pensions Regulator’s “no surprises” enforcement approach, as well as DC consolidation, housing costs, and the latest on LGPS pooling.
The 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.
Always A Pensions Angle: Endgame drift and investment dilemmas
The Always A Pensions Angle team looks back on some stories listeners may have missed over the summer, from endgame developments to AI, from conflict zone investment to affordable housing.
Border to Coast agrees £400m deal for 866 rental homes
The acquisition comes as the LGPS pool continues to expand its UK Real Estate Fund, which it expects to grow to around £3bn over the next 12 months.
Investment roundup: LGPS funds launch housing manager; GLIL snaps up assets
Two local government asset pools are combining their property portfolios, while infrastructure manager GLIL is on the acquisition trail. Elsewhere, the British Business Bank continues to connect growing UK companies to pension fund capital.
Buying British: Railpen, Nest, LGPS pools exploring UK ‘scale up’ fund
Leading investment institutions are in talks with the British Business Bank and the Office for Investment about the creation of a £1bn fund to drive investment into domestic companies seeking scale-up capital.
Always A Pensions Angle: What the Commission heard…
As pensions minister (for now) Torsten Bell drops a bumper package of regulatory updates, co-hosts Tom Parker and Nick Reeve sift through the paperwork and also look into what the pensions industry is telling the Pensions Commission.
Always A Pensions Angle: Gold Stars and Grey Areas - LGPS Guidance Unpacked
Fresh from the LAPF Strategic Investment Forum, Tom Parker, Nick Reeve and Brian Gielty explore themes from the conference and the big talking points from the government’s ‘Fit for the Future’ guidance.
Brunel’s Faith Ward joins LPPI as strategic adviser
She has also launched ‘Faith In RI’, a consultancy service that is also seeking to preserve Brunel’s work on climate and sustainable investment.
Always A Pensions Angle: SpaceX, Surpluses, and the Senior LGPS Officer
With SpaceX launching onto public markets with a $2trn-plus valuation, podcast co-hosts Tom Parker and Nick Reeve don their pension-themed spacesuits to explore some of the more pressing issues it raises.
LGPS funds face growing resources squeeze, Aon poll finds
Nearly three-quarters of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds do not have enough staff with the right skills to carry out day-to-day operations, according to an Aon poll.
Always A Pensions Angle: Fit for the Future, Dashboards, and Retirement Living Standards
This week sees the podcast team looking at the LGPS, which has a little more time to get Fit for the Future as some important deadlines have been extended. There are also updates on dashboards, AI, and Retirement Living Standards.
Always A Pensions Angle: The Report, the Gap and the Robot in the Room
In this bumper edition of the podcast, co-hosts Thomas Parker and Nick Reeve explore the Pensions Commission’s interim report, the gender pensions gap, local investment, investing in conflict zones, and artificial intelligence.
Fit for the Future: Government finalises pooling rules with new deadlines
Following feedback from across the LGPS, the government has extended the deadline for pools to receive regulatory authorisation and revised the authorisations it expects them to achieve, as well as moving deadlines relating to the transfer of assets to the control of pools.