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August, 2022
Investors seeking to Build Back Better face major obstacles
Pension trustees and investment managers face significant barriers to aligning their investment strategies with key elements of the government’s Build Back Better plan, according to recent research. These elements are infrastructure, skills, innovation, levelling up, net zero, and opportunities for growth. The study, The Role of Institutional Money, by ...
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August, 2022
Border to Coast completes first £5.7 billion private markets programme
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has completed investment in its initial £5.7 billion private markets programme. It has secured a diverse range of new investment opportunities for its Local Government Pension Scheme partner funds, while reducing fees by around 24%. Launched in 2019, the three year programme focused on infrastructure, private equity ...
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June, 2022
ReSI acquires another shared ownership portfolio from Orbit
Residential Secure Income Plc (ReSI), which invests in independent retirement living and shared ownership property to deliver secure, inflation-linked returns, has acquired 182 shared ownership homes from English housing association Orbit. The £21 million transaction is for 182 houses across 10 counties and is the second shared ownership tenanted ...
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June, 2022
Border to Coast joins £400 billion group supporting EM climate transition
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has joined a group of UK pension funds representing almost £400 billion in assets to address climate transition in emerging markets. The group will explore how it can help deliver real change through making direct investments that support climate transition in emerging markets, while still supporting economic ...
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June, 2022
Wales awards private debt and infrastructure contracts
The Wales Pension Partnership (WPP) has announced a series of appointments to facilitate implementation of its pooled infrastructure and private debt investment solutions. In charge of developing WPP’s pooled private debt investment programme is Russell Investments, while GCM Grosvenor will implement closed-ended infrastructure investments. Open-ended ...
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June, 2022
Net zero: don’t dither, but do, says London CIV CIO
Pension funds should spend less time worrying about how they will achieve their net zero ambitions and more time pursuing them, according to Jason Fletcher, CIO, London CIV. Speaking at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s investment conference in Edinburgh at the end of May, Fletcher said: “We spend more time arguing about the correct ...
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June, 2022
Aon appointed to offer LGPS funds an extra pair of hands
Aon has been appointed to the National Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Pensions Administration Operational Support Services Framework. This framework brings together communications and engagement services alongside administration support services. The framework will support LGPS procurement activities. Funds will also be able to approach Aon ...
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June, 2022
Church of England fund is 10 years ahead of net zero plan
The Church of England Pensions Board is a decade ahead of its 2050 net zero targets, according to its 2021 stewardship report. The report said that despite the challenges set by the Covid-19 pandemic, the significant reduction and/or exclusion of companies that failed to align with the transition to net zero were at the root of its success. The board has ...
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June, 2022
Reflections on the PLSA Local Authority Conference 2022
Edward Bogira, Head of Digital & Communications, PLSA. After three long years it was fantastic to be able to host the PLSA Local Authority Conference once again in-person at the fabulous Cotswold Water Park. The event was supported by over 300 delegates, exhibitors and speakers. During the course of three days we saw the culmination of a year-long PLSA ...
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June, 2022
Bonds can be force for net zero transition
Pension funds need not rely on equities as their only engagement tool in the battle to achieve net zero. So said Gillian de Candole, portfolio manager at Lothian Pension Fund, in a session on targeting net zero at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s investment conference. “It’s worth reiterating that real world impact comes mainly from ...
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