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2021 outlook: What's next for investments?
2021 outlook: What's next for investments?

After a year that took everyone by surprise, experts tell Professional Pensions what could be on the horizon for investments in 2021.

  • Investment
  • 22 December 2020
Webinar TODAY at 2pm: Investing in private credit
Webinar TODAY at 2pm: Investing in private credit

Professional Pensions is holding a webinar on private credit today (14 December) at 2pm.

  • Investment
  • 14 December 2020
Exclusive: Schroders launches multi-private credit fund for DB schemes
Exclusive: Schroders launches multi-private credit fund for DB schemes

Schroders has launched a multi-private credit fund (MPCF) for UK defined benefit (DB) schemes in response to growing demand for long-term and alternative income streams.

  • Investment
  • 12 November 2020
Fiduciary Management Focus: Rory Murphy to deliver keynote on MNOPF's journey
Fiduciary Management Focus: Rory Murphy to deliver keynote on MNOPF's journey

Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund chairman Rory Murphy is to deliver the opening keynote at Professional Pensions’ Fiduciary Management Focus conference next week.

  • Industry
  • 22 September 2020
Spot the Dog: Number of underperforming funds jumps by 'staggering' 65%
Spot the Dog: Number of underperforming funds jumps by 'staggering' 65%

A record-breaking 150 ‘dog’ funds have been identified in the latest bi-annual Bestinvest Spot the Dog report, with total assets of £54.4bn sitting in these vehicles.

  • Investment
  • 14 September 2020
L&G, Willis Towers Watson and USS unite behind black graduate intern programme
L&G, Willis Towers Watson and USS unite behind black graduate intern programme

More than 80 major fund management firms will come together to offer a range of investment internships to black graduates.

  • Industry
  • 17 August 2020
PP Investment Awards 2020 - Shortlists published
PP Investment Awards 2020 - Shortlists published

Here they are… The shortlists for this year's Professional Pensions Investment Awards.

  • Investment
  • 17 August 2020
PP sister title BusinessGreen debuts Net Zero Investment Hub
PP sister title BusinessGreen debuts Net Zero Investment Hub

PP sister title BusinessGreen has launched a new Net Zero Investment Hub in the run up to its inaugural Net Zero Festival this autumn.

  • Investment
  • 11 August 2020
IIGCC issues guidance on tackling physical climate risks
IIGCC issues guidance on tackling physical climate risks

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has published detailed advice on how to integrate climate risks and opportunities into investment processes.

  • Investment
  • 28 May 2020
Q1 2020 results round-up: Hargreaves Lansdown AUA down £8.5bn in 'exceptionally volatile' Q1
Q1 2020 results round-up: Hargreaves Lansdown AUA down £8.5bn in 'exceptionally volatile' Q1

The first three months of 2020 spelled the end of the longest bull market in history as the combined impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the oil price collapse caused havoc in most asset classes.

  • Investment
  • 14 May 2020
Sweating it out in the search for yield
Sweating it out in the search for yield

Schemes looking for higher yields face more risk. Stephanie Hawthorne asks if they can take it on the chin in today’s feverish environment.

  • Investment
  • 12 May 2020
Schroders teams up with K3 Advisory to offer endgame pricing to clients
Schroders teams up with K3 Advisory to offer endgame pricing to clients

Schroders has partnered with K3 Advisory to offer its fiduciary management clients up to-date market information and pricing to help decision making around endgame options, such as buy-in or buyout.

  • Investment
  • 14 April 2020
Schroders completes £75bn transfer of Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking assets
Schroders completes £75bn transfer of Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking assets

Seven tranches

  • Industry
  • 14 April 2020
Webinar: Managing cashflows in challenging times
Webinar: Managing cashflows in challenging times

Professional Pensions' latest webinar - held in conjuction with Aon, BlackRock and Schroders - looks at the specific cashflow challenges schemes have been facing during the disruption and market volatility caused by Covid-19; explore how different schemes...

  • Investment
  • 03 April 2020
How coronavirus could change our working lives (and the climate)
How coronavirus could change our working lives (and the climate)

Tools that can reduce business travel have long been available. The coronavirus is forcing us to use them, and the climate could benefit, says Simon Webber.

  • Industry
  • 19 March 2020
Five to ten years 'reasonable' for pension coronavirus recovery
Five to ten years 'reasonable' for pension coronavirus recovery

Savers with less than a decade to go until retirement have a reasonable timeframe ahead for their pension to recover from the market instability caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus, according to Unbiased.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 18 March 2020
Fiduciary management: Looking for a long-term partner
Fiduciary management: Looking for a long-term partner

Professional Pensions’ expert panel discusses key considerations for trustees tendering for a fiduciary manager.

  • Investment
  • 18 March 2020
Three charts that show how the coronavirus has hurt pension schemes
Three charts that show how the coronavirus has hurt pension schemes

Coronavirus (Covid-19) has rattled investors of all kinds, but the market reaction poses some challenges unique to pension funds, Duncan Lamont writes.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 16 March 2020
Exclusive: Schroders pension scheme allocates £800m of DB assets to in-house solution
Exclusive: Schroders pension scheme allocates £800m of DB assets to in-house solution

The Schroders Retirement Benefits Scheme (SRBS) is allocating £800m of its defined benefit (DB) assets to its in-house cashflow driven investing (CDI) building blocks.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 05 February 2020
Schroders to take over Woodford Patient Capital Trust by year-end
Schroders to take over Woodford Patient Capital Trust by year-end

Schroder Investment Management will be taking over the Woodford Patient Capital Trust by the end of the year, with Tim Creed and Ben Wicks leading the team-based approach.

  • Industry
  • 24 October 2019
BAE schemes team up with Schroders to acquire Sofitel at Gatwick
BAE schemes team up with Schroders to acquire Sofitel at Gatwick

A joint venture between the BAE pension funds and Immobilien Europa Direkt has acquired the Sofitel at Gatwick North Terminal with the help of Schroders.

  • Property
  • 04 October 2019
Industry Voice: CDI - Certainly Delivering Inflows
Industry Voice: CDI - Certainly Delivering Inflows

Although the focus of CDI is often on meeting assumed liability outflows, in reality it is all about securing the asset inflows.

  • Investment
  • 27 August 2019
Industry Voice: Striving for a more certain world
Industry Voice: Striving for a more certain world

Irrespective of size, funding level or maturity, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have one common goal: to pay members' pensions in full and on time.

  • Investment
  • 27 August 2019
Industry Voice: Integrated Risk Management: Designing an IRM framework
Industry Voice: Integrated Risk Management: Designing an IRM framework

Integrated Risk Management (IRM) brings together covenant, funding and investment risks, and assesses how these components interact with each other.

  • Investment
  • 27 August 2019
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