Fidelity to add private assets to £16.9bn pension scheme strategy
Investments will be made via Fidelity’s first Long-Term Asset Fund (LTAF)
Infrastructure
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Future Growth Capital to boost UK private markets with new LTAFs
Its aim is to ‘promote the UK’s private markets ecosystem, further enhancing the UK as an attractive destination for international investors’
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Keir Starmer: ‘We will rip up the bureaucracy that blocks investment’
Complex regulation is delaying growth projects and turning away investment, the prime minister said
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How to invest in an interest rate falling world
Many of the areas that have come under pressure as rates have risen may start to revive
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‘A tentative start’: Bank of England cuts interest rates to 5%
MPC voted 5-4 in favour of a 25bps cut
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Coller Capital: One third of investors plan increase to alternative assets
64% believe one of the private equity managers they invest with will merge or be acquired in next two years
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Evelyn Partners MPS team exits JPM fund and sells down Federated Hermes EM mandate
JP Morgan US Equity Income and Hermes Global Emerging Markets funds switched for BNY Mellon and Baillie Gifford offerings
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Three quarters of advisers eyeing larger real assets allocations
70% of the professionals questioned predicted a challenging investment environment this year
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MGIM’s Andrew Hardy: Why portfolio diversification is the only free lunch
Risks of recession are becoming ‘elevated’, according to the head of investment management
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Unexpected early exit waiver on infrastructure debt funds
Indian government amends tax law to allow non-resident Indians to liquidate investments
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US utility fund opens to international investors
Often viewed as an unsexy investment, utility companies meet fundamental human needs
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ESG returns spark to infrastructure-focused funds
Companies from the sector tend to have ‘far more steady cash flows’ which can be ‘attractive for portfolios’