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UK pension funds commit to manager diversity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
Some of the UK's biggest pension funds have committed to tackling the lack of diversity in funds management. The Asset Owner Diversity Working Group has launched the Asset Owner Diversity Charter, which aims to "build and investment industry which embodies ...

UK pension funds pushed to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
The UK pension sector is experiencing similar pressure to that being felt by Australia's super funds, with the pensions regulator asking defined contribution (DC) funds with less than £5 billion in assets being urged to merge. In September last ...

Northern Trust scores $20bn mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... achieve good retirement outcomes for members," Austin said. The Institutional Investor Group services about 300 UK pension funds with collectively more than US$884 billion (as at 30 June 2020) in assets under custody.

Half of UK pension funds seek buy-out

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
About half of all UK defined benefit pension funds are now targeting a buy-out as their long-term objective, new research shows. A survey of 100 DB pension scheme trustees by consultancy Hymans Robertson revealed the number of pension funds aiming for ...

UK pensions to factor in climate change risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
UK pension funds may soon be required by law to report on the risks climate change could have on their members' investments, becoming the first major economy to do so. Speaking last week, the UK's work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey proposed ...

UK pension funds to be hit hard over negligence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
The UK Government wants to up the ante on pension fund bosses who endanger worker's retirement savings. Under a new proposal from the UK Government, bosses would face up to seven years in jail for endangering the retirement savings of their workers ...

UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to chief executive officers of pension providers to outline government plans to introduce additional protection for retirees wishing to access their defined contribution pension pot from April this ...

IFM has 'concerns' over infra prices

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... it's the Chinese looking to do nuclear in Europe, or whether it's Canadians buying railway links rather than UK pension funds." In consequence of these high prices, he said IFM Investors is having to look in different places for its new infrastructure ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... regime similar to a surgeon's general warning." Gruen said super fund fees in Australia being three times that of UK pension funds means introducing reforms to structurally reduce these fees even by a few basis points would be a worthwhile major microeconomic ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... regime similar to a surgeon's general warning". Gruen said super fund fees in Australia being three times that of UK pension funds means introducing reforms to structurally reduce these fees even by a few basis points would be a worthwhile major microeconomic ...
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