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NewsGrowing gap in UK company mental health support, says UK research
CCLA benchmark is primarily designed as a tool to guide investors in engaging with companies, rather than using it to include or exclude companies from their portfolios
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UK roundup: Pearson insures £1.2bn of liabilities in 'umbrella' deal
Also: One in five FTSE 100 schemes will struggle in a recession; LPP appoints Albourne as ‘devil’s advocate’
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UK roundup: LGPS valuations, MNOPF, Coats, Unison, Pearson
Consultancy calls for portfolio-based approach for more transparent LGPS valuations
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UK roundup: Pearson, PPF, Towers Watson
UK – Publishing group Pearson sees DB fund recovery period fall by 3 years after deficit reduced.
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NewsLGPS funds should retain autonomy over asset allocation, says pensions industry
External directives ‘may backfire’ and lead to ‘poorer outcomes’ for scheme members and sponsoring employees, says Hymans Robertson
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Pearson pension transfers stall at calculation
[14:30 CET 09-02] UK – Hundreds of members of the Pearson Group Pension Trustee Limited are facing yet more delays to requested occupational pensions transfers, even though administrators are understood to have repeatedly indicated members’ transfer values would be calculated and dealt with months ago.
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Concerns see Pearson remove UBS fund
[12:30 CET 12-10] UK - Trustees of the Pearson Group pension plan will remove the UBS global optimal fund from its defined contributions investment range from January, on the back of “continuing concerns” about its investment returns.
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Pearson to pay £273m to plug pension deficit
[14:00 CEST 12-07] UK - Pearson Plc is to make £273.4m (€403.5m) in additional payments into the Pearson Pension Group pension plan over the next eight years to address a shortfall, an official company document reveals.
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Sainsbury’s pension manager Pearson retires
UK – Geof Pearson, manager and secretary of the £3.8bn (€5.5bn) Sainsbury pension fund, will shortly be retiring from the scheme.
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Pearson pension scheme manager retires
UK – Pam Jenkins, secretary and manager of the £1bn (€1.5bn) defined benefit group pension of publishing group Pearson, has retired.
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Special ReportUK: 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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Pioneer promotes Pearson to head of equities
IRELAND – Dublin-based Pioneer Investments has promoted head of European equities Stan Pearson to the newly-created position of head of equities.
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NewsPeople moves: UK's FCA creates new ESG role
FCA, HSBC AM, ATP, TV 2, Trillium, Hymans Robertson, Cardano, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Royal London Asset Management
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UK publishing company agrees £500m buy-in with L&G
Deal brings total liabilities insured to £1.7bn following transactions in 2017
White papersListed vs. private infrastructure: Why not both?
Investing in listed infrastructure may provide benefits that make a strong case for a larger allocation to listed markets relative to private investments than is currently observed by institutional investors. At Nuveen, we strongly believe in the infrastructure asset class.
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FeaturesShort Selling: The long and the short
Earlier this year, the UK politician Peter Kyle described BlackRock as “schizophrenic” for holding both long and short positions in Carillion, a London-listed construction company that went bankrupt in January.
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L&G launches blockchain-based pension insurance platform [updated]
Legal & General has teamed up with Amazon to develop a blockchain-based pension risk transfer process, dubbed Estua-re
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NewsUK pension system 'flawed but manageable' with auto-enrolment
Think tank’s deputy director of employment criticises state pension triple lock as ‘bizarre’ policy
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NewsHSBC pension scheme strikes £7bn longevity risk transfer
Deal with Prudential Financial is the second-largest longevity swap completed by a UK pension plan after the BT Pension Scheme’s £16bn deal in 2014
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Tobacco giant seals £3.4bn pension de-risking deal with PIC
Transaction accounts for the bulk of British American Tobacco’s UK DB pension fund, and is Pension Insurance Corporation’s biggest deal to date
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