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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.
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OpinionWhat does good pension scheme performance look like?
Lindsey Matthews, chief risk officer at the Universities Superannuation Scheme, explains why and how the largest pension fund in the UK takes a bespoke approach to assessing performance.
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OpinionAMNT: Why lateral thinking is an important trustee skill
Should we challenge accepted wisdom? Lewis Brown of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees asks whether recent geopolitical upheavals should lead more trustees to question long-held investment beliefs.
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PodcastsAlways 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.
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OpinionRailpen: The UK has the ideas, now it has the capital to back UK scale-up businesses
Railpen’s Anna Rule explains how the industry-wide pension scheme and other institutions plan to invest in UK scale-up businesses following the announcement of a dedicated fund backed by the British Business Bank.
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NewsGeopolitical risk a key reason behind DB sponsor weakness, research shows
Military action by the US and Israel across the Middle East region has contributed to multiple profit warnings issued by listed companies with DB pension schemes, new data indicates.
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NewsBorder 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.
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FeaturesClimate, liquidity, AI: What investment committees should be thinking about
With two-thirds of 2026 behind us, Pensions Expert asks investment consultants for the key risks and opportunities that should be on trustees’ agendas going into the autumn.
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NewsAsset managers growing concerned about AI risks, research shows
Technology firm Clearwater Analytics polled a range of investment managers working across various asset classes and found that many respondents were concerned about the potential impact of AI on areas such as data governance, regulatory compliance, and reliability.