The asset manager has said the legal claim by the North East Scotland Pension Fund - which centres on investments in wind farms which lost 83 per cent - is based “entirely on hindsight”

The UK has become one of the few countries where collective defined contribution pensions exist. How does the way it is approaching CDC compare to the approach taken in the Netherlands, where these funds have been common?

The Irish pension system is entering a phase of consolidation, which is currently taking place organically. But experts predict this will not last long and the republic’s government will soon intervene to speed things up

The People’s Pension, which manages $54bn in assets, has recently made its policy on responsible investing less ambitious following an ‘in-depth review’

FTN, the Swedish fund selection agency, has removed one of its most popular global equity funds from its platform - a move which has triggered a court battle with the fund management company

Following the 2008 Icelandic banking collapse, the country’s pension system imposed a cap on foreign assets which is now gradually being lifted. We speak to Iceland’s largest open pension fund about it

Since April 1, all fund assets in the UK’s $533bn Local Government Pension Scheme should - in theory - be managed at the pool level, with the pools becoming the primary providers of investment advice. But has this happened in practice?

Colombia’s pension funds are making crypto increasingly available to investors in a bid to widen the array of options available to them, making it one of the earliest adopters in Latin America of this asset class

Sweden’s pension system is going through a process of consolidation, which for some funds like AP2 means a change in investment approach

The British government’s local government pension scheme reforms have been largely carried out with the intention of creating bigger pools of capital to grow the UK economy. But there is a tension at the heart of these plans: while the government wants to replicate Canada’s Maple 8, which operate like private equity houses to invest globally, it is also instructing the LGPS to invest locally.

Calpers chief investment officer Stephen Gilmore explains to AOX what stage the $563bn pension fund is at in its transition to the total portfolio approach and how it is handling some of the potential risks

Given the rising tide of economic nationalism, is there anything we can learn from the extent to which pensions around the globe invest in their national economies? Perhaps there is.

Two of Britain’s local government pension scheme funds explain why they felt ‘soft government pressure’ to join a pool which was not their first choice

The US Senate is considering an anti-ESG retirement bill which will force funds to only consider financially material questions when they pick their investments. Will this change what pension fund portfolios actually look like?

Defined contribution schemes in the UK are becoming more confident in seeking returns away from public markets, according to LCP

PwC expects 2026 to be a “jumbo” year for pension buyouts in the UK asset owner space, with more than £50bn of transaction volumes forecast. But how is that changing the way insurers, on the other side of the transaction, invest?

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney won last year’s election in part due to economic nationalism in response to US tariffs. But is this the right approach to the country’s widely-respected pension funds?

Aberdeen City Council is taking Federated Hermes to court over an investment in Swedish wind farms which, it alleges, lost $117mn or 83 per cent of the total investment

The $25bn AkademikerPension fund is selling off its US Treasury holdings, a decision it insists is rooted in the American government’s “poor” finances rather than geopolitics

UK local government pension schemes are being ‘essentially forced’ to pool their management ahead of the April 1 deadline - but not everyone is happy about it

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

Steve Hodder, a partner at LCP, said the proportion of the gilt market owned by defined benefit schemes was “quite frightening” - particularly given the number of DB schemes closing and the large amount of buy-out activity

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