Brunel selects M&G and Aberdeen Standard for secured income investments
The £30bn Brunel Pension Partnership has announced it will commit £340m to long-lease property funds for three of its 10 local authority partner funds.
The 697,000-member Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool has chosen to use M&G's secured property income fund and Aberdeen Standard Investment's long-lease property fund as its first two investments...
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