Local authority pension funds should pool together and invest in housing and associated infrastructure, a report has said.
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at a joint government initiative to encourage UK pension schemes to invest in infrastructure.
A merger of 34 London borough pension funds into a multi-billion pound superfund is unlikely to happen until 2016 at the earliest, the head of London's largest scheme says.
London council leaders have raised governance concerns over proposals to merge council pension funds and invest directly in London infrastructure projects.
A Canadian infrastructure vehicle is set to go head-to-head with the UK government-backed Pension Infrastructure Platform in competition for scheme infrastructure cash.
London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone has thrown his support behind plans to get pension funds to invest in London infrastructure projects, according to reports.
London councillors are exploring plans for a £30bn pan-London pension fund merging the assets of Transport for London, the City of London Corporation and 33 borough councils.
Jenna Towler says infrastructure is where it's at
Andrew Short asks if plans to get additional investment in infrastructure, announced in George Osborne's autumn statement, will be attractive to UK pension schemes or a bridge too far?
Andrew Short looks at the number of threats to the cashflows of the Local Government Pension Scheme