Investment

Pension providers and single employer schemes are set to sign up to a new pledge to invest 5 per cent of their assets in UK private markets, according to sources. Believed to...

Scottish Widows is the latest pension provider to unveil details of a new long-term asset fund, designed to boost investment into private markets.  The open-architecture LTAF will be launched later this year,...

The People’s Partnership has appointed Marija Simpraga and Raymond Wright as co-heads of real assets, to lead its investment drive into private markets.  The People’s Partnership, which runs the People’s Pension master...

Future Growth Capital (FGC)  — the private markets joint venture between Phoenix Group and Schroders — has launched two diversified long-term asset funds (LTAFs). One of these LTAFs will be a global strategy...

Schroders stays committed to its long-term investment strategy as its Long-Term Asset Fund (LTAF) reaches its two-year milestone. The firm continues to evolve its approach to meet demands in an uncertain economic...

  CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE ROUNDTABLE SUPPLEMENT  These new VFM regulations will require schemes to benchmark themselves against competitors on three key metrics: costs and charges, investment performance,...

Fiduciary managers delivered strong returns on growth portfolios last year, with the majority outperforming stated target returns according to XPS’s latest review of the sector.  Its Fiduciary Manager Review analyses 17 UK...

The FCA has raised concerns that design features on trading apps, such as confetti animations, push notifications, and leaderboards, may be encouraging risky behaviour and poorer investment outcomes, especially among younger and...

SPONSORED ARTICLE The past few weeks have been alive with speculation about what tariffs the US might bring in and who and what would be targeted. That speculation came to an end...

Industry experts have painted a bleak picture of what the current market turmoil means for asset classes, with huge falls today compounding last week’s stock market carnage. Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson describing last...