All articles by Angus Peters – Page 4
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FeaturesDC Debate: Will Covid rebuilding advance the ESG agenda?
DC Debate: how will Covid-19 impact ESG agenda?After more than a decade spent persuading peers that accounting for environmental, social and governance risks in investment would not cause a drag on returns, some supporters of the ESG investing agenda must have felt vindicated by their survival of 2020's tumbling oil ...
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London boroughs add real assets income fund
On the go: The investment pool for London’s Local Government Pension Scheme partner funds has launched a new real assets fund aiming to steadily outstrip inflation, with seed money from the boroughs of Redbridge and Bexley.
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Tory peer aims to tighten dashboard commitments
On the go: An amendment to the pension schemes bill tabled by Lord Young of Cookham on Monday will force the Money and Pensions Service to provide a complete pensions dashboard for savers.
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Auto-enrolment weathers second contribution increase
A step up in the level of minimum contributions to workplace pension schemes in the UK has resulted in a minor uptick in employees choosing to opt out of saving, according to a new study.
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Webinar today: Has Covid-19 blown endgame plans off course?
A key moment is approaching for defined benefit pension schemes, where trustees' investment strategies will be tested on their ability to pay pensions on time, without recourse to cash-strapped sponsoring employers.
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CMA gives trustees six months to submit compliance statements
On the go: The Competition and Markets Authority has updated its timeline for compliance with orders in its investigation into the investment consultant and fiduciary management sectors, reminding trustees that they have until January 7 2021 to submit statements to the markets regulator.
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Railways scheme among DB backers in biomass plant acquisition
On the go: The Railways Pension Scheme is among the defined benefit pension schemes behind the takeover of Sleaford Renewable Energy Plant in Lincolnshire, led by private equity company Greencoat Capital.
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Chair’s statement template to ease trustee headaches
On the go: The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has released a new template designed to help trustees of well-run defined contribution schemes avoid being caught out by chair’s statement requirements.
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Banking association scheme signs £95m buy-in
On the go: The defined benefit scheme of the British Bankers’ Association has entered into a £95m buy-in agreement with insurer Aviva, covering 213 members’ benefits.
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3i buys in £650m across pensioners and deferreds
On the go: Private equity and infrastructure group 3i has announced a £650m buy-in with Legal & General.
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Consumers unaware of pensions’ ESG power
On the go: The majority of consumers take steps to improve the sustainability impact of their daily lives, but fail to apply these lessons to their finances, according to a new study by master trust Nest.
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Smart eyes alts allocations after Natixis backing
On the go: Master trust Smart Pension has attracted investment from asset manager Natixis, in a strategic partnership that the companies hope will see members gain access to the fund house's suite of alternative strategies.
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BEIS-backed clean growth fund seeks pension capital
On the go: The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is seeking to attract pension fund investment to a “clean growth” venture capital fund it has seeded with CCLA Investment Management.
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Regulator warns employers exploiting Covid flexibilities
On the go: The chief executive of the Pensions Regulator has assured MPs that despite its decision to pause enforcement activities, it will make exceptions for employers who treat its intervention as anything other than a temporary cash flow aid.
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‘Rule-taking’ TPR unable to further ease LGPS cash flow issues
On the go: The Pensions Regulator has cautioned local authority defined benefit schemes that it does not have the power to waive responsibilities such as collection of contributions, as some pension boards begin to worry about cash flows.
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Covid-19 unlikely to affect long-term mortality rates
On the go: The coronavirus pandemic is likely to have a very muted impact on the pensions sector, according to a new report emphasising that a reasonable proportion of Covid-19 deaths would have occurred this year anyway.
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Regulator rebuffs calls to abandon new DB code
On the go: The Pensions Regulator has dismissed calls from industry to halt its work on a new defined benefit funding code, arguing that the affordability principle it espouses is “even more important and relevant in the light of Covid-19”.
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Investment-grade back in favour with DB schemes
On the go: An illiquidity premium has appeared in long-dated investment grade bonds, according to consultancy Aon, which has urged clients to take advantage of coronavirus volatility to turbo-charge their matching allocations.
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PS Aspire pulls out of master trust market
On the go: Punter Southall Aspire has withdrawn its master trust from the market after concluding that it was unlikely to reach the necessary scale.
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Insurer investment risks could drag on buyout volumes
Variations in the levels of investment risk taken by life companies providing insurance for defined benefit pension promises could distort and disrupt the progress of the pensions derisking market, according to experts.