Local Government Pension Scheme

Northern LGPS has opened a procurement framework for property investment managers, mirroring existing collaboration agreements with local authority funds.

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has hired three people to its investment team and two to its research team following a series of new fund launches.

The £30bn Brunel Pension Partnership has hired CACEIS to provide cost transparency and benchmarking services across the partnership.

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has launched its first fixed income product with a £2.5bn sterling investment-grade credit fund.

The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has gone live with a cost transparency compliance system and has on-boarded all UK schemes onto the platform.

A £1.2bn global investment-grade corporate bond fund has been launched by LGPS Central with four initial investors.

Members are increasingly seeking external adjudication on schemes’ approach to ESG issues. Stephen Richards outlines the steps trustees can take to prepare for this activism.

The £30bn Brunel Pension Partnership has called on asset managers to become more climate-aware or face removal from its portfolios.

The government’s ban on boycotts by public institutions may extend to the Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS).

The £45bn Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has launched its largest fund to date, with £5bn of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) assets being allocated to global equity alpha.