The Islamic finance market has grown by nearly 200 per cent in recent years, with growth in bond-like instruments now making it possible for pensions to provide more diversified options. But does that pose a concentration conundrum?

Investments in private equity by European institutional investors have remained broadly flat since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic but there are signs asset owners are looking at smaller scale opportunities

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

Asset owners are concerned about another sovereign debt crisis and are weighing their liquidity needs as they prepare for periods of market stress. But investors continue to show interest in private credit, despite concerns over default risk

As demand for private assets has gone up, the number of evergreen funds available has increased by 200 per cent over the past decade. Are these vehicles a genuine innovation, or is it all just marketing?

Over the past few weeks AOX reporters have been surveying asset owners to answer a question which has been surprisingly hard to get to the bottom of: how popular is the total portfolio approach

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

Matt Tickle, chief investment officer at Barnett Waddingham, says AI businesses globally have also begun issuing "meaningful amounts of debt and investment-grade credit", which could begin to crowd out the amount of capital available to other types of investors

Blue Owl Capital recently gated one of its direct lending funds but pension funds which have committed money to the company say they are not worried

As the number of US IPOs by corporate issuers declines, Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins has sought to reassure investors about the material benefits of US public equities.

Experts from across the pensions industry gathered in Edinburgh earlier this month for the Pensions UK 2026 Investment Conference. We find out which major topics got attendees talking.

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.

In the past decade or so there has been a boom in the launch of these funds, but what is driving that boom?

Last month, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice announced that a Reform government could transform the UK Local Government Pension Scheme into a £500bn sovereign wealth fund, while scrapping defined benefit pensions for incoming civil servants. But could the LGPS actually be converted into a sovereign wealth fund?

The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative relaunched last week, but it returns at a delicate moment for asset managers navigating political pressures in the US and a more nuanced environmental, social and governance environment in Europe.

The Bank of England’s governor Andrew Bailey is among the policy makers to express bubble fears within the private credit sector, but many asset owners still see the asset class as a necessary component of their investment portfolio.

The British pension system is trying to reconfigure itself with something of a Canadian flavour, that means bigger funds, investing in private assets through in-house teams. We speak to Leandros Kalisperas, chief investment officer at the British Business Bank, about how pension funds in England and Wales can get there.