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LGPS Access appoints UBS Asset Management for £11bn passive brief

09 October 2017 • 2 min read

The Local Government Pension Scheme's (LGPS's) Access pool has appointed UBS Asset Management to run the consolidated passive mandates for 11 administrating authorities.

The brief includes passive briefs across both equity and fixed income and uses a range of indices, including market cap, RAFI and other indices. The pool did not disclose the price paid to UBS f...

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