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Finance & investment briefing – September 2017

The Finance & Investment Briefing – September 2017 (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing: Proposed changes to the asset management sector The potential for consolidation...

FCA publishes final report into asset management sector

Introduction On 28 June 2017, the FCA published the final findings of its asset management market study.  The FCA launched the market study in November 2015, to assess whether institutional and retail investors get good value for money...

Finance & investment briefing – March 2017

The Finance & Investment Briefing – March 2017 (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing: Back to basics: arbitration v litigation Asset management: FCA interim report...

TPR’s guide to investment governance

TPR’s revised Code of practice on the governance and administration of occupational trust-based schemes providing money purchase benefits came into force on 28 July 2016. To coincide with this, TPR published the final versions of its...

Finance & investment briefing – December 2016

The Finance & investment briefing – December 2016 (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing: Back to basics: the execution of documents Collateral for non-cleared OTC...

A practical approach to ESG – A guide for pension trustees

Read our 2020 guide, ‘ESG and climate change for pension funds’ here.  There is an increasing prominence of Environmental, Social and corporate Governance factors on pension trustee agendas and, as a result, a corresponding...

DC hot topic – Asset security

For a PDF version of this hot topic click here Following the introduction of automatic enrolment and an increasing regulatory focus on DC governance, DC asset security is now in the spotlight. However, not all trustees feel comfortable...