Investment

Rory Murphy says a bona fide mediation process could provide valuable evidence of reasonableness for trustee and employer alike

The £30bn local government pension pool has appointed Quoniam and Robeco to manage an active equity portfolio worth around £400m.

Investors, driven by depressed interest rates, slower global economic growth and rich equity market valuations are examining non-traditional investment opportunities.

Self-administered pension funds spent £15bn on payments to pensioners in Q4 2018, but received just £12bn in contributions (net of refunds), Office for National Statistics (ONS) data reveals.

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and Gresham House are to team up to form a joint venture.

The cost of equalising guaranteed minimum pensions (GMPs) has been revised down by around £7bn, nearly half that of an initial £15bn estimate.

PP speaks to Dalriada Trustees' Hugh Nolan about his views on the CMA's review into the investment consultant and fiduciary management markets.

BNY Mellon has launched a range of reporting tools to help institutional investor clients track and evaluate portfolio investments based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

PP speaks to BESTrustees director Heather McGuire about her views on the CMA's review into the investment consultant and fiduciary management markets.

Three in five trustees have not heard of Clara Pensions, one of two defined benefit (DB) consolidators to have launched since last year's government white paper.