Investment

Never, when I used to do face-to-face pitches, would I ever have been interrupted by a rabbit – that’s just been one of the many challenges of the new virtual pitching environment in...

Dalriada Trustees - one of the UK’s largest independent trustee firms - has appointed with Minerva Analystics to asses asset managers’ ESG and stewardship records.  As part of this partnership Minerva will...

Scottish Widows is investing £2bn from its pension portfolios into BlackRock’s new Climate Transition World Equity Fund.  This is the first investment into this fund, which Scottish Widows helped design. The fund takes...

Only a minority of working adults (44 per cent) feel they understand enough about pensions to make decisions about their retirement, according to new data from the Office of National Statistics. Its...

Pension deficits have continued to rise during July, despite the economic lockdown easing, according to the latest data from Mercer. Its Pensions Risk Survey data shows the accounting deficit of the DB...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a marked effect on the funding of DB schemes, with a wide gap remaining between the best and worst-funded schemes, according to Aon’s latest accounting report. It...

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched a new secure income funds for DB schemes, which invest in  range of assets including infrastructure debt, real estate debt and private corporate debt....

As with several other regulatory initiatives, the implementation of investment pathways has been delayed due to Covid-19. The reform had been due to come into force in August, which would have meant...

Nest has adopted a new investment policy with the aim of being ‘net zero’ in terms of carbon emissions by 2050. The UK’s largest master trust provider says this policy should help...

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) is calling for a new regulatory framework to protect those who don’t engage or fully understand their retirement options. This regime will require pension schemes...