All Brunel Pension Partnership articles – Page 2

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    Schemes challenge managers to tackle lack of diversity

    2021-08-02T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Asset managers who wish to continue to work with some of the biggest pension schemes in the UK will have to disclose how they are targeting diversity or risk losing their business.

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    Brunel Pension Partnership launches multi-asset credit fund

    2021-07-22T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The £30bn Brunel Pension Partnership has launched a multi-asset credit fund, split across three separate mandates.

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    Fourteen pension schemes commit to net-zero targets

    2021-07-14T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Fourteen pension schemes, which collectively manage nearly £270bn of assets, have committed to set net-zero targets to align their investment portfolios with a 1.5C pathway.

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    Brunel pool to launch Paris-aligned passive fund

    2021-07-06T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Brunel Pension Partnership has licensed a Paris-aligned index, which it will adopt for a passively managed fund that it will launch in September 2021.

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    Brunel pool launches first fixed income portfolios

    2021-06-18T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Brunel Pension Partnership has launched a passive gilts and a passive index-linked gilts portfolio in conjunction with BlackRock.

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    Brunel pool lowers carbon intensity

    2021-05-06T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Brunel Pension Partnership, composed of 10 Local Government Pension Schemes with around £30bn in assets under management, has reduced the carbon intensity of all its active portfolios and all but one of its index-tracking portfolios by at least 7 per cent compared with its 2019 baseline.

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    Brunel Pension Partnership reduces costs by £34bn

    2021-03-29T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Brunel Pension Partnership has published its annual report highlighting the cost saving incurred and the increased opportunities for stewardship, diversification and climate analysis for its members.

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    Brunel sees successful engagement with HSBC on fossil fuel financing

    2021-03-11T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Brunel Pension Partnership, composed of 10 Local Government Pension Scheme funds with £30bn in assets under management, has claimed a role in UK bank HSBC’s board-backed resolution to lower fossil fuels.

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    Brunel commits to net-zero by 2050

    2021-03-10T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Brunel Pension Partnership, composed of 10 Local Government Pension Scheme funds with around £30bn in assets under management, has committed to a 50 per cent reduction in its carbon emissions across its portfolio by 2030, with the goal of achieving net-zero by 2050.

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    Brunel Pension Partnership invests in affordable housing

    2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Brunel Pension Partnership, composed of 10 Local Government Pension Scheme funds and with around £30bn in assets under management, will now offer PGIM Real Estate's UK Affordable Housing Fund to its clients. 

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    Brunel launches £1.2bn sustainable equities fund

    2020-10-28T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Brunel Pension Partnership has launched an equity fund with environmental, social and governance considerations that will be managed by three asset managers.

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    Unison presses LGPS schemes to work harder on green transition

    2020-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Workers’ union Unison has called for local authority pension schemes to back ‘green’ causes with dedicated funds as part of their increasing commitment to climate-aware investing.

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    Investors urge companies to tackle modern-day slavery in Gulf

    2020-08-05T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Brunel Pension Partnership is among a group of investors calling on companies to protect migrant workers in the Gulf, over concerns that job cancellations caused by Covid-19 are forcing them into debt bondage.

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    Brunel pool issues tenders across credit spectrum

    2020-07-23T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Brunel Pension Partnership has called for pitches from managers of both multi-asset credit and sterling corporate bonds, seeking to deploy some £2.7bn of local authority pension capital.

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    Brunel achieves carbon intensity reduction target

    2020-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Brunel Pension Partnership has achieved its target of reducing the carbon intensity of its active portfolio by 7 per cent a year in time for the UN’s World Environment Day, but smaller schemes saddled with pooled products may lack the clout required to emulate them.

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    LGPS pool chair: Fragmented system cannot continue

    2020-03-11T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The UK's private sector pension schemes will be forced to consolidate in the same way as the Local Government Pension Scheme, according to the chair of the Brunel Pension Partnership.

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    Brunel lays down gauntlet with ESG policy

    2020-01-27T00:00:00Z

    The Brunel Pension Partnership has issued a radical challenge on climate change to its asset managers and peers, as the local authority pool attempts to reduce the carbon intensity of its equity portfolios by 7 per cent year on year.

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    Brunel eyes full transition of scheme assets by end of 2020

    2020-01-08T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Brunel Pension Partnership is aiming to complete the transition of assets from its partner funds by the fourth quarter of 2020, by which point it expects to have launched the majority of its portfolios.

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    Local schemes urge Barclays to stop financing fossil fuel companies

    2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Several local government pension schemes are asking Barclays to publish a plan to gradually phase out its financing of fossil fuel companies, as the bank has provided more than $85bn (£65bn) to such companies since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.

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    LGPS: The differing approaches to investment pooling

    2019-12-30T00:00:00Z

    The Local Government Pension Scheme pools are up and running more than four years after they were first mandated, yet despite being subject to the same legal requirements, the eight pools differ markedly. The characteristics of the underlying schemes have had an important influence on the pools’ use of third-party investment managers.