Investment

The Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) has called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to respond to a complaint it made in May regarding investment stewardship.

British Airways (BA) has pledged an extra £150m in annual deficit recovery contributions (DRCs) to the New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) over the next four years.

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has boosted its investment in social housing with a £40m further allocation to Soha Housing.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched a revised stewardship code – significantly raising its expectations on how money is invested.

In this Q&A, Mike O’Brien, Director of Global Trading, offers his insights into how the trading desk seeks to add alpha to the investment process.

Some 37% of pension fund investors expect to increase allocations to real assets over the next 12 months, according to Aviva Investors.

In the second of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to Hymans Robertson's Mark Baker about his firm’s approach to fiduciary assessment.

While private credit mandates may not be straightforward to set up, they are a reliable source of income with lower default risk, says Mark Fawcett.

The industry has had little success engaging members with pensions over the past 20 years. Jonathan Stapleton says two initiatives currently underway may change this in the future.

Mark Denning, who helped to run $300bn of assets at Capital Group, has resigned from his role after he was alleged to have secretly bought shares for his own benefit in some of the same companies as his funds.