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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
Industry Voice: Using fiduciary management to achieve your objectives
Industry Voice: Using fiduciary management to achieve your objectives

One of the key benefits of fiduciary management is that it gives trustees the time and resources to focus on high-level issues, which should mean they can make more informed decisions about strategy.

  • Investment
  • 27 August 2019
Industry Voice: Achieving your objectives
Industry Voice: Achieving your objectives

One of the key benefits of fiduciary management is that it gives trustees the time and resources to focus on high-level issues, which should mean they can make more informed decisions about strategy.

  • Investment
  • 14 August 2019
PP Investment Awards 2019 - Shortlists published
PP Investment Awards 2019 - Shortlists published

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

  • Industry
  • 29 July 2019
Lloyds to pay SLA £140m in compensation over termination of Scottish Widows mandate
Lloyds to pay SLA £140m in compensation over termination of Scottish Widows mandate

Lloyds Banking Group will compensate Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) £140m for the attempted early termination of an investment management arrangement for Scottish Widows worth over £100bn.

  • Investment
  • 24 July 2019
Fiduciary management spotlight
Fiduciary management spotlight

  • Investment
  • 07 July 2019
The importance of good governance
The importance of good governance

The correlation between good governance and investment performance...

  • Investment
  • 05 July 2019
Who? The most important decision of all
Who? The most important decision of all

Selecting a fiduciary manager is one of the most important decisions trustees can make, given the appointee's pivotal role in setting and implementing a scheme's investment strategy.

  • Investment
  • 04 July 2019
Challenging the tomorrow mentality
Challenging the tomorrow mentality

In recent years there has been a sharp uptick in the number of UK DB pension scheme trustees implementing fiduciary arrangements. Indeed, this is not a coincidence given the current investment environment trustees are facing.

  • Investment
  • 04 July 2019
Industry Voice: Staying in control of your objectives with fiduciary management
Industry Voice: Staying in control of your objectives with fiduciary management

What the new long-term funding target means for trustees and how good governance can help them stay in control of this target…

  • Investment
  • 04 July 2019
Industry Voice: How the right fiduciary management approach can help?
Industry Voice: How the right fiduciary management approach can help?

Trustees’ responsibilities are widespread: they include ensuring their pension scheme is well run, protecting members’ benefits and fulfilling their regulatory commitments. Managing the investment strategy forms just one part of these responsibilities,...

  • Investment
  • 12 June 2019
Atlas Master Trust allocates £320m to Schroders sustainable multi-factor equity strategy
Atlas Master Trust allocates £320m to Schroders sustainable multi-factor equity strategy

The Atlas Master Trust has incorporated sustainability into its default equity approach. Jonathan Stapleton speaks to both the scheme and its asset manager about the move

  • Defined Contribution
  • 30 April 2019
Striving for a more certain world
Striving for a more certain world

At the recent Risk Reduction Forum, hosted by Professional Pensions, Schroders' Hannah Simons discussed how cashflow driven investment can provide greater confidence of achieving a strategic goal

  • Defined Benefit
  • 28 March 2019
Credit where credit is due
Credit where credit is due

Cashflow driven investment strategies can provide a greater certainty of outcome, while also enhancing a scheme's risk management framework, says Schroders' head of fiduciary management Hannah Simons

  • Defined Benefit
  • 28 March 2019
SLA tribunal triumph over Lloyds termination of £109bn Scottish Widows mandate
SLA tribunal triumph over Lloyds termination of £109bn Scottish Widows mandate

Standard Life Aberdeen has won a tribunal in which it claimed Lloyds Banking Group was not entitled to give notice to terminate investment management arrangements for a £109bn mandate.

  • Regulation
  • 19 March 2019
Tower Hamlets pension fund buys equity protection
Tower Hamlets pension fund buys equity protection

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets Pension Fund has purchased protection for around £700m of equities in the run-up to its March 2019 triennial valuation.

  • Investment
  • 06 December 2018
Exclusive: Blackrock launches multi-asset strategic growth fund
Exclusive: Blackrock launches multi-asset strategic growth fund

Blackrock has launched a strategic growth fund for defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) schemes which aims to achieve long-term growth with two-thirds the volatility of equities.

  • Investment
  • 07 November 2018
Schroders launches DC-focused sustainable multi-factor fund
Schroders launches DC-focused sustainable multi-factor fund

Schroders has introduced a sustainable multi-factor equity fund which aims to help defined contribution (DC) schemes while integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 10 October 2018
Schroders emerges as frontrunner in battle for £109bn Scottish Widows mandate
Schroders emerges as frontrunner in battle for £109bn Scottish Widows mandate

Schroders is set to land the £109bn Scottish Widows mandate as it offers a stake in its wealth arm Cazenove Capital as part of the negotiations, according to reports.

  • Investment
  • 03 October 2018
European investors 'ahead of the curve' in sustainable investing
European investors 'ahead of the curve' in sustainable investing

Schroders survey reveals sustainable investment activity is highest among European investors. Kim Kaveh explores the research.

  • Investment
  • 20 September 2018
SEI hires UK advice director
SEI hires UK advice director

SEI Investment Company's institutional group has appointed Alistair Jones to deliver investment advice for its defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution scheme client base.

  • Appointments
  • 07 September 2018
How South Yorkshire Pensions Authority is protecting itself against a major market fall
How South Yorkshire Pensions Authority is protecting itself against a major market fall

The local authority pension fund recently bought protection for its £2.6bn equity portfolio ahead of its 2019 valuation. Stephanie Baxter looks at how the strategy works

  • Investment
  • 06 June 2018
'Fake news' and funding levels: Why BoE rate rises matter less than you think
'Fake news' and funding levels: Why BoE rate rises matter less than you think

Speculation about rate rises has caused some schemes to delay any further liability hedging. Rosalind Mann looks at why this may be the wrong move.

  • Investment
  • 23 May 2018
Asset managers reject LGPS initiative on fees
Asset managers reject LGPS initiative on fees

Over 170 asset managers have rejected an initiative which requires better disclosure of fees UK public pension funds are charged, despite increased regulatory pressure on costs throughout the industry.

  • Investment
  • 29 March 2018
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