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April, 2020
PLSA urges trustees to engage on climate change
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has called upon trustees to hold companies to account on how they manage climate change risk in its updated annual Stewardship Guide and Voting Guidelines. In October, new regulations were introduced requiring trustees to understand and disclose how they include financially-material ESG factors, and ...
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April, 2020
Active is dead, long live active
Hal La Thangue, Senior Consultant, Global Insights, Broadridge. Hal La Thangue of Broadridge looks at the benefits of both active and passive investment management, outlining how the two can often be complementary and how active equities still have a positive role to play in LGPS portfolios Scrutinised by the media on performance grounds and eclipsed ...
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April, 2020
Border to Coast builds up support for private markets
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership, one of the largest public sector pension pools in the UK, has appointed Albourne Partners to support its private markets investment programme. The pool recently launched its alternatives private markets strategies, covering infrastructure, private equity and private credit, which secured around £1.8 billion of ...
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April, 2020
Retail price index to fall 1% annually
The retail price index is due to fall by around 1% a year under proposals from the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), as it seeks to align it with the consumer price index, including housing costs. The authority, in consultation with HM Treasury, announced that it is seeking views on potential technical issues that could arise from switching the way RPI ...
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March, 2020
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February, 2020
MSCI unveils climate risk tool
US index provider MSCI has launched a research product enabling investors to assess the climate risk of equities and corporate bonds within their portfolios. The Climate Value-At-Risk (VaR) tool provides forward-looking and return-based valuation assessments to measure the potential impact of climate change on company valuations and help investors identify ...
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February, 2020
Pensions Bill revived in parliament
The Pensions Bill was reintroduced to the House of Lords, which aims to crack down on pensions transfer scams and strengthen reporting of defined benefit investment strategies. The bill, which was delayed by the general election, required DB trustees to set out a formal funding and investment strategy in a chair’s statement to The Pensions Regulator ...
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February, 2020
London LGPS launch social housing investment strategy
London CIV (LCIV), Local Pensions Partnership and the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) have teamed up to launch a fund aimed at investing in developing housing and infrastructure in London. The fund will concentrate on portfolio investment in the City of London, the capital’s 32 boroughs and their immediate surrounds, in assets such as residential ...
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February, 2020
RPI reform review delayed
A joint consultation on proposed reforms to the retail price index (RPI) was launched on the 11th of March. The suggested alignment of RPI with the housing variant of the consumer price index (CPIH) would reduce RPI by around 1% and schemes with CPI-linked liabilities may see a reduction in their funding levels of 10% or more, according to analysis by ...
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February, 2020
Trustees concerned about Opperman ESG intervention
More than one third of pensions professionals think the cost of regulation is too high and expressed concern over the pensions minister’s direct intervention on ESG issues, according to research from the Pensions Management Institute (PMI). The PMI’s latest Pulse Survey revealed that 34% of industry professionals were worried about the rising cost of ...
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