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?

Insurers are increasingly keen to invest in private markets, but the lack of opportunities which match their risk profile requirements means their options are limited

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

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.

Multi-family office GACS believes it is well-positioned to meet the increasing demand for investing in India

Goldman Sachs’ Family Office Investment Insights report reveals that demand for public equities has risen on 2023 levels

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

British pensions minister Torsten Bell is worried about conflicts of interest in the professional trustee and investment consultants markets

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

Torsten Bell told the Pensions UK conference he does not believe he will need to use the powers given to him by the pension schemes bill to force funds to invest in UK 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.