The Church of England Pensions Board has published its 2025 Stewardship Report, outlining its approach in an increasingly fractured and volatile world of growing conflict and weakened global institutions.
UK savers are failing to benefit from the investment potential of domestic venture capital, Minister for Pensions Torsten Bell has said.
London-based fintech Novum Investment Management has secured a significant equity investment from a UK local government pension fund to launch and scale Doris, a patent-pending investment technology designed to help more people move from saving to investing with greater confidence.
Stichting Pensioenfonds voor de Woningcorporaties (SPW) has appointed Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management (Van Lanschot Kempen) as its new fiduciary manager.
Geopolitical conflicts top UK defined benefit (DB) pension funds’ list of challenges for the next six months, research from Russell Investments shows.
AustralianSuper, Australia’s largest superannuation fund, has announced a series of senior appointments in the Fund’s London office, writing that this reinforces its commitment to deepening its global investment capabilities and delivering long-term value for its more than 3.6 million members.
The UK government’s ambition to see all local government pension schemes pooled in so called ‘megafunds’ took a step closer to realisation this month as six new schemes joined LGPS Central taking pooled assets to GBP100 billion.
Julian Marks, Head of Hybrid Bonds, Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd writes that defined contribution (DC) pension schemes in the UK continue to face a difficult balancing act: generating sustainable income in a low-yield world while meeting increasing expectations around governance, diversification, and ESG alignment. In this environment, trustees and their advisers are rightly exploring new corners of the fixed income universe.
Robeco has announced that PGGM, one of the Netherlands’ leading pension investors, has awarded it two advanced 3D investment mandates totalling over EUR 15 billion on behalf of its client Pensioenfonds Zorg & Welzijn (PFZW).
Size really does matter when it comes to the investment performance of the world’s largest pension schemes.
