Investment
Morningstar IM launches range of multi-asset funds
Blending active and passive strategies
Industry Voice: Biden focus on regulation could have broad impact
Efforts to achieve environmental goals may be consequential
Industry Voice: Beyond the pandemic
Newton’s Curt Custard considers the investment outlook for 2021 and the implications for DC schemes
Trustees have 'false confidence' in their scheme strategies
Nearly every trustee is confident of the next stage in their scheme’s strategy, despite almost an equal number being forced to consider replacing plans within the prior 12 months, according to research by Barnett Waddingham.
Master trust investments 'more sophisticated' but 'growing pains' hinder progress
Master trusts’ investment strategies have grown and become more sophisticated over the last three years, but “growing pains” are hindering progress, according to the Defined Contribution Investment Forum (DCIF).
Government infrastructure bank to partner with pension funds to support investment
The government will set up an infrastructure bank to support investment and to co-invest alongside investors including pension funds.
UPDATED: RPI to be reformed in 2030, but no compensation for gilt holders
The Retail Prices Index (RPI) will be reformed and aligned with the housing cost-based version of the Consumer Prices Index, known as CPIH, by 2030, the Treasury has confirmed.
Companies overstate liabilities by £60bn amid Covid deaths
Companies could be overstating their pension liabilities by up to £60bn due to their life expectancy assumptions, according to XPS Pensions Group.
Governance Watch - December 2020: No show is no big deal, argues Foxtons
Estatee agent denies a shareholder’s absence from voting is an issue, finds Minerva Analytics.
Market Movers Blog: Sunak to pledge £4.3bn to tackle joblessness
In this live blog, Professional Pensions' sister title Investment Week collates all the breaking market news, analysis and opinion on equity, bond and currency movements as well as the impact of trade wars, tightening monetary policy and the Brexit negotiations....
Industry Voice: Five reasons why investors should now consider small-caps
Attractive valuations and prospects for economic recovery support small-caps
92% of pension funds to allocate to renewables; Covid-19 recovery slows fossil fuel divestment
While the majority (92%) of pension funds in the UK plan to increase their allocations to renewables, the economic impacts of the coronavirus will see larger climate-positive moves such a fossil fuel divestment significant delayed, Octopus Renewables...
All I want for Christmas is... a submitted CMA compliance statement
We are now approaching the first anniversary of trustees required to set strategic objectives for their investment consultants, Grant Suckling writes.
Pension tax reform support remains high; Sunak flags potential changes
The majority of employers currently support the simplification of the pension tax regime, with evidence mounting of its adverse impacts, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) finds.
Ross Trustees secures private equity backing from LDC
Ross Trustees has secured investment backing from private equity investor LDC, as it prepares to capitalise on growing demand for professional trustee services.
Liquidity in a crisis: Why 2020 beat 2008
Lee Sanders says the fast and adaptive market response to the crisis of 2020 has shown how much the financial system has improved upon the credit market liquidity issues that were at the heart of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC).
Updated: Landmark GMP ruling 'significant challenge' for schemes
Defined benefit (DB) schemes that provide GMPs must revisit and, where necessary, top-up historic cash equivalent transfer values (CETVs) that have been calculated on an unequal basis, a landmark court judgment said last week.
Industry Voice: A mostly benign outlook for US inflation
The stabilisation of US economic growth amid unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus has raised questions about the likelihood of inflation returning. Global Head of Fixed Income, Jim Cielinski, and Global Bonds Portfolio Manager, Andy Mulliner, explain...
LGPS-backed infrastructure fund invests in East Coast Main Line Fleet
GLIL Infrastructure has agreed to acquire a 30% equity stake Agility Trains East (ATE) for a rolling stock fleet of 65 new UK intercity trains from Tokyo-headquartered Hitachi Rail.
FCA must stop DB transfer history repeating
Regulators must act now to impose some "proper regulation" to stop another defined benefit (DB) transfer advice disaster, saysTim Sargisson.
Government promises to unleash net-zero investment blitz with '10 Point Plan' for 'Green Industrial Revolution'
Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, electric vehicles (EVs) and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.
