IPE's United Kingdom Coverage – Page 26
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NewsBritish Business Bank completes £250m LIFTS investment with Schroders Capital
The fund aims to catalyse more than £1bn of funding, including from UK pension funds
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NewsUK government proposes pension reforms to unlock £80bn of investment
Government proposes merging LGPS assets and consolidating DC schemes into super funds
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NewsLocal Pensions Partnership Investments hits £200m cost savings
CEO Chris Rule says greater pooling of funds could help deliver scale and better cost savings
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NewsG4S Pension Scheme completes £1.8bn buy-in deal with Just Group
The scheme’s funding level had improved in recent years, enabling the trustee and company to accelerate de-risking plans
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NewsMedian investment fees for fiduciary management fall by over 50%
A significant driver in this fall has been price competition between fiduciary managers as they have sought more cost-effective ways to implement investment strategies
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AnalysisUK’s productive agenda overlooks life insurers holding £310bn of pension assets
UK life insurers could potentially invest up to £100-£200bn in productive investments over the next 10 years
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NewsTPT Investment Management launches LDI solution for DB schemes
Solution is designed to enable schemes to implement robust long-term funding strategies focused on their endgame objectives
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NewsThree UK pension schemes complete buy-in transactions
Atradius Pension Scheme completed £190m buy-in with PIC; Halma Group Pension Plan and Apollo Pension and Life Assurance Plan completed £250m buy-in with Standard Life
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NewsAon takes on £3.5bn with three new clients for UK OCIO service
And Mercer announces completion of acquisition of Cardano
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NewsFirst UK pension fund allocates to bitcoin
Adviser Cartwright says it has ‘opened the door for risk-averse pension schemes to benefit from bitcoin’s potential growth’
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NewsL&G master trust trustees make first move to analyse nature-related dependencies
The report formally recognises the links that climate change has with nature and biodiversity loss, as well as people and society.
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NewsMineworkers handed back £1.5bn pension pot in Budget
Over 100,000 former mineworkers are due to benefit from Labour’s decision
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator - November 2024
Donald Trump has profited from climate change, which he believes unimportant, as this year’s hurricane season has so far seen more storms over a wider area.
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Opinion PiecesCan UK DC pension schemes plug the venture capital funding gap?
Europe is becoming an exciting place for tech start-ups, but they are receiving little support from European pension funds, which have eschewed venture capital since the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the late 1990s.
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NewsBrunel CIO to step down after four years
Brunel Pension Partnership is beginning the process of finding the next CIO
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NewsUK industry is ‘encouraged’ chancellor did not target workplace pensions in Autumn Budget
Labour party has delivered its first budget since coming into power in July
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NewsNEST considers freezing new investment into firms missing climate targets
NEST responsible investment lead says possible sanction a result of companies ‘not listening to them’
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NewsUK trustee firm IGG attracts new private equity investor
ECI Partners has invested in Independent Governance Group
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NewsDeutsche Bank UK scheme completes final £1.1bn buy-in with Legal & General
The transaction marks the third and final transaction for the scheme, bringing the total of insured liabilities with L&G to £2.1bn
