Investment

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has acquired a prime city-centre site in Manchester as the location for its first build to rent (BTR) project, investing £130m to fund the construction of 520 residential apartments, over 6,000 square feet of commercial...

The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has launched a research series focused on identifying practical ways to improve trustee and contract-based scheme provider engagement on ESG issues.

The industry has broadly backed proposals to require the largest schemes to publish climate risk disclosures but raised concerns about the workload of implementation as well as how to standardise the methodology used.

Nest has completed its plans to rid its investment portfolio of tobacco assets a year earlier than it had anticipated.

Gareth Gettinby looks at how static and managed currency hedges compare in crisis scenarios.

The collapse of several long-established employers with large defined benefit (DB) schemes could vastly overtake calculations for a £20bn hit to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), warns Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP).

The government has put forward proposals to require the 100 largest occupational pension schemes – those with £5bn or more in assets and all authorised master trusts – to publish climate risk disclosures by the end of 2022.

European pensions funds’ awareness of, and desire for, action on climate change related investment risk has surged, Mercer says.

The Pensions Regulator’s (TPR) proposal for a ‘fast track’ approach to defined benefit (DB) scheme funding regulation is being “used too broadly” and in danger of suffering from “mission creep”, says Aon.