IPE's United Kingdom Coverage – Page 2
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Interviews
Merseyside pension fund dials down domestic bias
Scheme’s strategic ambition is to move closer to the MSCI World index weightings
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Features
UK creates social factors template for pension investors
Environmental and governance risks receive much attention, but UK and other European institutional investors have focused less on social factors and their complexities.
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News
Fiduciary managers’ growth portfolios underperform their target returns
XPS survey finds that majority of fiduciary managers’ growth portfolios underperformed their target returns by 3% or more
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News
Small DB schemes unlikely to run on beyond buyout funding level due to costs
Hymans Robertson finds that the cost of running a small DB scheme is four times the cost of running a large scheme
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News
LGPS funding level increases to 106% ahead of next actuarial valuation
LGPS funding level improved from 67% at 31 March 2022 to 106% as at 31 March 2024
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News
The People’s Pension expects ‘adequate’ stewardship resourcing from managers
The People’s Pension has strengthened the expectations of its investment managers in its new responsible investment policy
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News
Pensions Dashboard Programme to launch user testing and planning group
PDP highlighted that there is a need to robustly test dashboards as they develop
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News
UK regulator committed to supporting further innovation in DB market
TPR is due to publish its approach to profit release mechanism in superfunds and new DB alternative arrangements guidance this year.
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Regulator calls for UK DB schemes to reassess long-term objectives
TPR’s Louise Davey says ‘trustees should look to redirect some of their funding level improvements towards a funding and investment strategy that is aligned with their plans’
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PIC launches streamlined solution for small pension schemes
The service will be available to schemes with assets of less than £100m looking to complete a buyout
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Analysis
Mansion House Compact: spotlight on Aegon
Niall Aitken, head of retail investment proposition at Aegon, spoke to IPE about why Aegon signed up to the compact and the complexity of its journey
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News
Church Commissioners appoints ‘planet lead’
Laura Moss-Bromage will design and lead the Church Commissioners’ portfolio-wide biodiversity strategy
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News
ACCESS pool seeks two private equity allocators
The aggregate size of annual commitments to both private equity allocators will be on average around £500m or more each year
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News
Investors want more clarity on decarbonisation plans for UK transport industry
UK government risks creating an investment hiatus through its inconsistent and opaque approach to public-private engagements
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News
PLSA calls for superfund regime before establishing public sector consolidator
Association says more time is needed to determine whether public sector consolidator is needed
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News
PPF-run pensions consolidator could unlock £10bn in UK investment
The lifeboat scheme estimates that pension funds with assets totalling £130bn could be interested in a transfer
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News
FTSE350 DB schemes do not invest in line with Mansion House agenda
Mercer analysis of FTSE350 pension funds shows an aggregate surplus of £66bn at the end of March 2024
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News
Shell calls on investors to reject climate resolution from European pension funds
Follow This calls on responsible investors to ‘side with their peers’ instead of the board of Shell
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News
Huge amount of work left for schemes ahead of pension dashboards launch
LCP’s survey found that only 39% of its webinar attendees had prepared pensions dashboard ‘project plan’
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News
TPR’s Statement of Strategy will be challenging and costly for UK schemes
Completing the template as proposed will create a lot of extra work and could add 20% to scheme valuation costs