Moves in the US are afoot to make it easier for pensions to invest in crypto - with Harvard’s endowment a prominent asset owner to do so. But is a similar trend in play on this side of the Atlantic?

Mercer studied 52 countries and found 77 per cent of them impose some sort of investment restriction

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?

Consultants are wary about valuations as the AI-fuelled market boom continued unabated.

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

Retail investors have been pulling money out of ESG investments for several years as enthusiasm for the style turns negative. Is this reflected among asset owners?

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.

What are the challenges facing the chancellor and are British pension schemes really are laggards compared to Canadian ones, when it comes to investing in private assets?

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.

In a continuation of the year’s trends, the final quarter of 2024 saw the individual local government pension schemes and LGPS pools surveyed by MandateWire targeting alternative asset classes, with a strong preference for property and infrastructure, as well as private debt.

Pension consolidators ploughed into private market assets in the final quarter of 2024 as the Royal Mail Pension Fund appointed a manager to run the UK’s first ever collective defined contribution pension scheme.

Despite a quarter-on-quarter increase in transaction volumes, the number of bulk insurance deals completed by UK corporate pension funds in Q3 2024 was below the 16 recorded in the second quarter of the year. That drop in deals coincided with greater discussion around scheme run-on.

Local government pension schemes and LGPS pools surveyed by MandateWire in the third quarter of 2024 focused on alternative portfolios, in part due to the UK government’s push to encourage the LGPS to provide UK private market funding.

Nordic university and local authority funds continued their hunt for traditional balanced managers during the second quarter of the year, while other investors in the region sought diversification in illiquid alternatives.

HSBC Global Asset Management topped MandateWire’s manager league table in September, winning the most mandates among the European investors we surveyed during the month, while BlackRock attracted the highest net inflows.