As the UK government pushes for pension scheme consolidation, dreaming of economies of scale and a dearth of domestic private investment, we look at the Netherlands and Australia for clues as to what that might look like

Outgoing New York City comptroller Brad Lander has told the city’s pension systems to fire BlackRock over its climate track record. This has not gone down well with the world’s largest asset manager

The growing need for green infrastructure in the UK and across Europe is driving large-scale investors like Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global and the Australian-owned IFM Investors into projects - with family offices also joining the party

Appetite for hedge funds has been strongest among European asset owners, so far in 2025, while those in other regions seem less keen

Brazil’s family offices are moving in the opposite direction of their North American peers. While US investors pile into private credit and AI-driven growth, Brazilian wealth managers are building buffers, expanding exposure to fixed income, tax-exempt bonds, and government bonds

Many US asset owners are crowding into sectors which have seen strong demand: medical offices, self-storage and care homes and are wary of traditional office space

According to Antonina Scheer of the Transition Pathway Initiative, one of the big wins of the COP30 summit was the lack of backsliding on climate finance after the US pulled out of the Paris Agreement

Increasing running costs, turbulent global markets and declining voluntary incomes are putting charitable organisations under more financial pressure than ever, driving them to rethink the role of their investment portfolios

State Street has described the current environment as a “Goldilocks” scenario for emerging market debt with the US dollar in a slump and the Federal Reserve expected to cut rates

People’s Pension, which runs £38bn in assets, is aiming to align its investments with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warning below 1.5C but some US asset managers are pivoting away from ESG investments

The Friends Provident Foundation is partnering with five other charities to encourage investment managers to compete over a $66mn portoflio which prioritises social and environmental impact

The first chief executive of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan told AOX forcing funds to invest in their domestic economy usually results in ‘suboptimal’ returns

With new regulation enabling multi-employer collective defined contribution pension schemes expected to be finalised this month, CDC is attracting growing interest from pension providers and employers

The leader of Derbyshire County Council, which is now controlled by the right-wing populist Reform UK, tells AOX why they are shaking up how the pension scheme he now controls is invested

India’s National Stock Exchange has been boosted by several large IPOs such as Tata Capital and LG Electronics. This has boosted Indian equity markets and encouraged investors to consider increasing their exposure to the county

Dan Mikulskis, chief investment officer at The People’s Partnership - which provides one of the UK’s largest master trusts, has recently completed a transition of its asset ownership model which involved building a team of specialists

In the 1990s the UK pension funds and UK insurers accounted for just over half of all UK quoted shares but according to ONS data that has now dwindled to just 4.2 per cent. What happened?

The UK defined benefit buyout boom could have plenty of time left to run, according to Standard Life’s Claire Altman

Spending on healthcare has been increasing around the world for some years - a trend Stonehage Fleming is hoping to capitalise on

The Topix index is up 19 per cent so far this year but the return of inflation means this may not continue