Investment

Efforts to achieve environmental goals may be consequential

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.

The government will set up an infrastructure bank to support investment and to co-invest alongside investors including pension funds.

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 could be overstating their pension liabilities by up to £60bn due to their life expectancy assumptions, according to XPS Pensions Group.

Estatee agent denies a shareholder’s absence from voting is an issue, finds Minerva Analytics.

Attractive valuations and prospects for economic recovery support small-caps

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...

We are now approaching the first anniversary of trustees required to set strategic objectives for their investment consultants, Grant Suckling writes.