Family offices are using the blockchain to tokenise art works, meaning investors can now own small parts of a single piece of art

Novo Holdings’ managing partner for principal investments Christoffer Søderberg tells AOX that retail investors will help drive appetite for private markets.

Last year Royal Mail became the first UK company to launch its own collective scheme. Is CDC here to stay?

So far the Scottish government has not issued a pooling mandate, but whether the UK government’s pension reform agenda fails to make it north of the border remains to be seen

Following a record year for UK defined benefit pension scheme funding in 2024, private equity managers are among the companies taking note of an expanding opportunity set in the bulk annuity market

Rachel Elwell, chief executive of Border to Coast, raises the prospect that the long-awaited pension dashboard might encourage savers to question how much exposure they have to private assets

Richard Law-Deeks thinks that by 2030 there may be as few as four local government pension scheme pools in England and Wales

Pensions UK’s head of parliamentary affairs Katy Little said she had never seen a bill move as quickly though parliament as the pension schemes bill.

Morningstar has long had a policy of not using alternatives in its portfolios, preferring instead to use a simple equities and bonds mix. But now this has changed.

Three large European investors drove higher net inflows into corporate bonds and credit in the second quarter of this year, even as compressed spreads dampened UK pension scheme appetite for investment-grade credit.

Inflows to private credit have increased in recent years, along with the number of managers offering such investments. But the Bank of England is concerned. Should asset owners be as well?

The 21 LGPS abandoned by the closure of the Access and Brunel pools have all found a home, but the Isle of Wight Pension Fund isn’t happy with its lot

Last year a host of asset owners terminated mandates with hedge fund managers but the tide may have turned.

Charities are finding themselves strapped for resources, so are shifting the allocations of their investment portfolios to achieve their philanthropic goals

Demand for equities rose, with the asset class accounting for more than a third of all expressions of interest and investments

The merger between Lothian and Falkirk schemes has been put on ice…again

Paul Maia, a partner at McKinsey, explains how family offices and pension funds are changing their behaviour towards private equity.

In the first edition of AOX we look at the early data on whether pension schemes are actually investing more in private assets or not, in response to Rachel Reeves’s requests.

Younger generations are encouraging family offices to switch from a wealth preservation approach to a growth-focused one.