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December, 2018
Call for LGPS members to review risk management
Consulting firm Aon has highlighted the importance of risk management at the administering authorities in the UK responsible for managed LGPS funds. Aon has worked with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CPIFA) to update its guide on managing risk in a local government pension scheme. Aon partner and head of public sector actuarial, ...
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December, 2018
Strathclyde looks for real estate debt manager
The £21.5 billion Strathclyde Pension Fund is planning to appoint an asset manager for a real estate debt mandate. The fund said it will consider a segregated solution, or pooled funds, for a mandate with a focus on senior secured direct and whole loans, lending against commercial real estate assets in the UK and Europe. It said that the debt portfolio ...
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December, 2018
Schroders brings out GAIA Helix alternatives fund
UK fund manager Schroders has launched a new fund, Schroder GAIA Helix, as a single access point for investors looking for alpha-generating strategies. The fund is designed as a liquid alternatives offering, giving access to multiple strategies, with a focus on long-short and long-only alpha equity strategies, offering a UCITS framework. The fund will also ...
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December, 2018
ESG investing in emerging markets
James Edwards, Director, Sales, UK Institutional, BMO Global Asset Management. Paul Myles, Director, Sales and Relationship Management, UK Institutional, BMO Global Asset Management. With interest in Environmental, Social and Governance issues continuing to rise in importance globally, James Edwards of BMO Global Asset Management looks at how Local ...
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December, 2018
Merseyside pension fund takes Smart approach to sustainability
The £9 billion Merseyside Pension Fund has invested £400 million in an index-tracking fund, with adaptions for climate change risks and risk factor exposures. The LGPS fund will use a smart sustainability index from FTSE Russell for the All World Equity Climate Balanced Multi-Factor Index subfund, which will be managed by State Street Global Advisors. ...
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December, 2018
Inside the engine room of emerging market local currency debt
Andrew Keirle, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets, Local Currency Bond Strategy, T. Rowe Price. Paul Gallagher, UK & Ireland Institutional Manager, T. Rowe Price. Andrew Keirle and Paul Gallagher of T. Rowe Price explore different aspects of the risk and return drivers of the potentially rewarding EMLC asset class Emerging Market (EM) local ...
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December, 2018
Successful launch for Brunel ACS
Brunel Pension Partnership, the £30 billion LGPS asset pool for the south-west of England, has launched its authorised contractual scheme (ACS) with its first sub-fund, for actively managed UK equities worth approximately £1.6 billion. The active UK equity sub-fund will be managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), Baillie Gifford and Invesco, ...
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December, 2018
Nottinghamshire selects property tracker fund
The Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund has given a £22 million mandate to Kames Capital for its commercial property tracker fund. The Kames Active Beta Property Fund is run solely for UK pension schemes and is believed to be the first property tracker fund of its type. It aims to enable investors to track property market returns, with carefully ...
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December, 2018
Disruptive technologies challenge traditional infrastructure approach
Heiko Schupp, Global Head of Infrastructure Investments, Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Heiko Schupp of Columbia Threadneedle Investments discusses the positives for investment of technological and sometimes disruptive innovation Technology trends and disruptive innovation are influencing the infrastructure asset class. The future of ...
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December, 2018
How pension funds can help lend to the real economy
David Cooper, Regional Head of EMEA, Debt Investments, IFM Investors. A decade after the global financial crisis opened up the project finance market to direct institutional capital, there is a growing opportunity for pension funds to support firms with their growth ambitions and invest in the real economy, writes David Cooper of IFM Investors Today, ...
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