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Kempen announces two UK fiduciary mandate wins
Kempen Capital Management has announced it has completed the transfer of two new fiduciary management mandates.
Fiduciary management: Looking for a long-term partner
Professional Pensions’ expert panel discusses key considerations for trustees tendering for a fiduciary manager.
Alignment is key to active fiduciary management outsourcing
Following the Competition and Marketing Authority's investigation, Nick Reeve looks at how trustees can prepare for the formal tender process required for the selection of fiduciary managers.
Five fiduciary management questions for trustees
As schemes face additional hurdles to appoint fiduciary managers, Paul Wharton outlines the key considerations for all trustees in the process.
The fiduciary evaluators: KPMG's Greg Wright
In the fourth of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to KPMG’s Greg Wright about why he sees the evaluator role as critical in selection and monitoring processes
CMA fiduciary manager comparison metrics a win for sector transparency
Metrics that will allow pension funds to compare providers’ performance for the first time will provide a much-needed boost to transparency, according to Dalriada Trustees.
Exclusive: IC Select launches service to measure impact and quality of investment advice
IC Select has launched an oversight service to empower trustees to challenge the quality and success of their investment advisers.
Investments: the poor cousin
Trustees need to increase their focus on investments and demand more from their advisers, argues Donny Hay.
TPR publishes guidance on fiduciary manager selection
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published guidance detailing how schemes that use fiduciary managers should run a competitive tender process when appointing a manager.
IC Select's Peter Dorward - fiduciary management a 'marriage not a date'
In the third of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to IC Select’s Peter Dorward about his firm’s approach to fiduciary assessment.
Buck launches DB investment governance service
Buck has launched an investment governance service which aims to help defined benefit (DB) schemes prepare for their endgame.
KPMG in talks to sell pensions unit to private equity house
KPMG has confirmed it has entered into exclusive talks with Exponent Private Equity to sell its pensions advisory unit.
Exclusive: EY launches fiduciary manager selection dashboard
EY has launched a digital dashboard allowing trustees to more easily narrow the field of potential fiduciary managers before a tender process.
The past, present and future of fiduciary management fees
As the CMA’s remedies for the fiduciary management market bed in, schemes should be thinking more about how fees are structured, says David Hickey
The fiduciary evaluators: Barnett Waddingham's Peter Daniels
In the first of a series of interviews with fiduciary evaluators, Margie Lindsay speaks to Barnett Waddingham’s Peter Daniels about how his team assesses fiduciary managers and the challenges for the industry going forward.
How schemes should be acting after CMA review
As pension schemes grapple with new fiduciary management and investment consulting rules, Charlotte Moore asks what trustees need to do
Industry generally positive over TPR guidance on investment governance
As The Pensions Regulator’s consultation on investment governance guidance closes, Holly Roach looks at the industry’s response.
Standalone funds not always subject to CMA tender rules
Pension funds that decide to invest in standalone fiduciary management funds are being reassured that they will not be subject to mandatory tendering requirements.
Remember, remember the 10th of December…
Trustees risk leaving their scheme ungovernable if they do not get in place strategic objectives for investment advisers, warns John Paterson.
GSAM's David Curtis: The CMA got its review 100% right
In the last part of this Q&A series, PP speaks to GSAM's head of UK & Ireland institutional client business, David Curtis, about his views on the CMA's review into the investment consultant and fiduciary management markets, and the results of our joint...
Hymans Robertson calls for clarification over impact of CMA order on LGPS funds
Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds must set investment objectives after the competition watchdog expanded those caught by its market investigation, but more clarity is needed, Hymans Robertson has said.
CMA takes final step in reform of investment consultants and fiduciary managers
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a legally-binding order in a bid to help pension trustees make better decisions for the £1.6trn of retirement assets they oversee.
'Big four' must split audit and consultancy work, says CMA
PwC, KPMG, EY and Deloitte must break up their consultancy and audit businesses into distinct firms to provide greater focus on the "most challenging and objective audits", the competition watchdog has said.
CBC Pension Services' Michael Clark: What trustees think of the CMA review
PP speaks to CBC Pension Services' Michael Clark about his views on the CMA's review into the investment consultant and fiduciary management markets.