IPE's United Kingdom Coverage – Page 204
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News
Mandate roundup: Towers Watson, LGIM, Merchant Navy Officers
Towers Watson hires manager to oversee funds within its master trust
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NewsInternational Corporate Governance Network to draft global code
Organisation sets out policy goals for coming year
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UK sponsors face tax on pension fund investment costs
HMRC policy paper comes in wake of ECJ case brought by Dutch firm PPG
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Features
UK Local Government Pension Scheme: The only certainty is change
After years of uncertainty, UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has signalled his desire for radical structural change among the UK’s local authority pension funds.
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UK roundup: FCA, PLSA, trustees, TPR
UK pension association calls on regulator to consider role of trustees under new pensions freedoms
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LPFA calls for creation of infrastructure clearing house
Clearing house would give local authority funds better access to local projects, organisation says
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Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and Clwyd back SME fund
Foresight Group fund targets SMEs based in North West region of England
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ICI fund agrees buy-ins worth £1.8bn with Legal & General, Prudential
Further deals see fund insure more than half of liabilities
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Asset managers say capital markets must be ‘servants of society’
Investors risk ending up in ‘miserable world’ if no action taken
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UK companies ask government not to tinker with pension taxes
Survey reveals widespread resistance to tax changes among employers
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Joseph Mariathasan: Xi Jinping's visit to the UK
The UK, far from kowtowing to China, could be criticised for failing to exploit its relationship more
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UK local authority funds face £115bn asset 'fire sale' due to MiFID II
Reclassification of local authority funds as retail investors could see them forced to divest from institutional products
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UK think tank suggests lead regulator for DC funds over merger
Paper warns lack of regulation of master trusts could lead to poorer outcomes
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NewsBank of England sees 'merit' in stress test for pensions sector
UK central bank expresses interest in stress test for wider financial sector to assess systemic risk
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NewsLGPS regulations may be replaced with individual investment policies
Government set to consult on overhaul of investment regulation as it launches pooling consultation
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NewsLancashire County Pension Fund buys first direct wind farm stake
Assets consist of interests in eight onshore wind farms in Northern Portugal
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NewsEAPF climate policy targeting 2°C world not ‘knee-jerk reaction’
UK pension fund outlines eight-page climate policy
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NewsNetherlands leapfrogs Australia as Denmark remains atop Melbourne Mercer
Slight changes in ranking see Switzerland, Sweden tie for fifth place and Finland slip
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Former UK regulator clashes with TPR over trustee qualifications
Bill Galvin questions why ‘well-meaning amateurs’ still members of boards
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Retreat from CDC ‘strategic, tactical’, says UK's Altmann
New UK pensions minister defends shift from risk-sharing, hints at stricter regulation of master trusts
