All illiquid assets articles
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FeaturesInnovation needed to stop illiquid assets delaying bulk annuities
Consultancy giant Aon has written to insurers calling for more innovation on tackling illiquid assets held by pension schemes approaching the bulk annuity market.
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FeaturesOutlook 2025: DC investors hunt out private markets opportunities
Could 2025 be the year that defined contribution (DC) pension schemes finally break into private markets?
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NewsCushon, Aegon to back British Growth Partnership
The Cushon Master Trust and Aegon are working with the British Business Bank with a view to investing in the new British Growth Partnership.
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NewsFulcrum to launch latest private markets LTAF
Fulcrum Asset Management is to launch a new long-term asset fund (LTAF) aimed at defined contribution (DC) schemes and other institutional investors, offering a diversified portfolio of private market assets.
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FeaturesChanging course: The case for reinvesting pension scheme surpluses
Ahead of chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech on Thursday, Pensions Expert explores changing attitudes towards defined benefit scheme surpluses and how they could be used to benefit members, employers and the wider economy.
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NewsBulk annuities update: £510m worth of benefits secured in four deals
Standard Life has secured the benefits of 2,200 people across two buy-ins worth a combined £250m, in a busy week for bulk annuity announcements.
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NewsMichelin insures DB scheme for £1.5bn
Tyre manufacturer Michelin has insured its defined benefit (DB) scheme for £1.5bn with Aviva, marking the biggest bulk annuity deal of 2024 so far.
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NewsTPR grows investment team and vows to 'probe' strategies
The regulator has doubled its investment consultant staff in a bid to increase its scrutiny of investment strategies as schemes seek to allocate more to UK-centric assets.
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NewsFCA to allow retail investors and DC self-select funds access to 'higher-risk' LTAFs
The city watchdog is allowing mass market retail investors, self select DC pension schemes and self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) to access long term asset funds (LTAFs) but the move has already been questioned by the investment industry.
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NewsTrott: Underperforming schemes to ‘improve, consolidate or exit’
Pensions minister Laura Trott has said pension schemes that are underperforming will need to act and either “improve, consolidate or exit the market”.
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NewsMorrisons scheme secures buy-in on back of gilt yields rise
On the go: The Wm Morrison 1967 Pension Scheme has agreed a £762mn buy-in with Rothesay, securing the remainder of the liabilities for the 1967 section of the Morrisons Retirement Saver Plan.
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NewsDWP to announce DC reforms amid cost of living crisis
The Department for Work and Pensions will be announcing a series of reforms to defined contribution saving, in an attempt to curtail the impact of the cost of living crisis.
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NewsLDI turmoil could reduce DB schemes’ investment in illiquids
The fallout from the September market turmoil will be “wide-ranging” for UK defined benefit schemes, with regulatory changes influencing their capacity to invest in less-liquid growth strategies, according to a new report from Bloomberg Intelligence.
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NewsLGPS funds pile into illiquid alternatives amid soaring inflation
Data crunch: Local authority schemes have committed more than £10bn to illiquid alternatives in 2022 as the hunt for inflation-linked cash flows and attractive returns intensifies, according to MandateWire data.
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FeaturesInvesting for the future: DB schemes in 2023 and beyond
Pensions Expert | December 14, 2022
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NewsTPR: Valuing some illiquid assets may be ‘impossible’
The Pensions Regulator has warned of the challenges posed by attempting to value illiquid assets, as the government seeks to incentivise defined contribution to increase these investments.
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NewsPPF: True impact of LDI crisis is still unknown
The true impact of the liability-driven investment turmoil will only be known when schemes start publishing their annual accounts, especially for a group of pension funds that were not able to meet collateral calls and lost their hedges, the Pension Protection Fund’s head of LDI and credit has warned.
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NewsValue over cost emphasised in new DC illiquid investment guides
On the go: Defined contribution scheme trustees are being encouraged to shift their focus on illiquid investments from cost to value, in a series of guides published by the Productive Finance Working Group.
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NewsSolvency II reforms ‘could unlock £100bn in productive finance’
The Treasury has published its final Solvency II reform proposals, which are expected by the industry to unlock more than £100bn in long-term productive assets such as social infrastructure and green energy.
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