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LGPS duo launches admin shared service
Services will be provided to more than 270,000 fund members and nearly 500 employers, making this one of the largest operations in the LGPS
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UK: Labour government seeks continuity with focus on boosting domestic investment
The Department for Work and Pensions will have its work cut out as the new Labour government starts a comprehensive pensions review
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£900m in new UK pension allocations to climate-tilted tracker funds
UBS UK’s DC scheme and Tyne & Wear DB scheme invest in UBS AM, LGIM funds
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Tyne & Wear scheme committee proposes restructure in 2021-2024 plan
The transfer of assets to Border to Coast will exclude all assets in passive indexed investment vehicles
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UK: Encouraging UK growth through consolidation
The UK government is pursuing plans to leverage pension assets to boost economic growth while generating best returns for members
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UK roundup: Tyne & Wear, JP Morgan, BlackRock, LLMA, Aon Hewitt
UK – The Tyne & Wear Pension Fund has awarded four investment mandates, worth a total of £1.3bn (€1.5bn), to companies including JP Morgan Asset Management and BlackRock.
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South Yorkshire boosts Border to Coast asset pool's in-house expertise
South Yorkshire Pensions Authority, Tyne & Wear Pension Fund join asset pool, bringing size above £27bn
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UK: Funding challenges amid continued market uncertainty
The UK’s pension regulator emphasises the need for schemes to focus on long-term planning, transparency and risk management
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Carillion: UK’s LGPS assessing cost impact after contractor failure
Public pension staff are reviewing pension cost sharing agreements related to outsourced services
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UK: Consolidation remains controversial
Guidance on the long-awaited legislation setting out a regulatory framework for superfunds is finally released
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Top 1000 Pension Funds 2024: Pensions back at a sweet spot
Assets for the leading 1000 European pension funds grew by 8.7% year-on-year, reversing last year’s loss of 6.8%. This brings total assets back up to above their previous high water mark of €9.7trn in 2022’s research exercise. This year’s overall net gain in assets of €775bn is the largest since 2021’s increase of €810bn.
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Lancashire tenders €146m in hedge funds
UK - The £3.47bn Lancashire County pension fund has tendered around £100m (€146m) in fund of hedge funds.
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UK roundup: Tyne & Wear review, AA Pension Scheme, Staffs
[15:00 CET 26-10] UK – The £3.8bn (€4.1bn) Tyne and Wear Pension Fund has revealed it expects to tender a number of investment mandates in the next two months. The AA pension fund has appointed Hewitt for consultancy services and Staffordshire is seeking an investment consultant.
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Fidelity loses Tyne & Wear's UK mandate
[17:15 CET 10-03] UK – The £3bn (€3.25bn) Tyne & Wear Pension Fund has confirmed it terminated its UK equity mandate with Fidelity at the end of last year.
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UK roundup: Tyne & Wear, Shropshire, Kent, Xafinity, FSA, PMI
[16:30 CET 17-12] UK – Several UK local authorities have reviewed their investment and administration mandates while there have been developments elsewhere in relation to UK pensions regulation.
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UK: Thinking beyond Brexit
Pensions regulation has taken a backseat to Brexit but this has not stopped the industry from moving ahead with changes