The Strathclyde Pension Fund has over 250,000 members and £20bn of investments. UK Pensions Awards 2021. They have generally been under less scrutiny and pressure compared to public funds, meaning there is a greater scope for impact. Members may be surprised, for instance, that it took 70 years for the discovery that cigarettes cause lung cancer to translate into a decision from the UK’s largest pension fund by assets to withdraw its £190 million support for the industry. We protect millions of people throughout the United Kingdom who are members of defined benefit pension schemes, to make sure that they’ll be looked after if the scheme they’ve paid into fails. Published: 16:50 EST, 1 June 2020 | … Worryingly for the UK, not one of the nation’s pension funds made the top 20 of the list, with Britain now accounting for just under 5% of the global pension pot. UK's largest pension fund cuts out 'financially unsuitable' coal, tobacco and arms manufacturing. Page last updated: 2 March 2021 Eventually, after immense pressure, they did agree to keep 90% of their promise. By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter. In total, 645,000 people accessed their pension pots for the first time in 2018-19, according to data from the Financial Conduct Authority, and they had savings totalling £40.1bn. If you are a member of a pension scheme administered by Aon and have a query, please contact us on 01252 768000 or email enquiries@aon.com.. Aon Solutions UK Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct … In total, almost half have delivered a … Welcome to one of the UK’s largest pension funds. As I wrote in A pension scandal worse than Maxwell, the Government's promise to workers that their pensions were 100% safe was not the case for 140,000 people whose employers, and pension schemes, collapsed between 1997 to 2005. 'The average UK All Companies fund has delivered the same return as the FTSE All Share year-to-date, of -16.6 per cent. The UK Pensions Awards – now in their 24th year – remain the industry's most prestigious accolades. It is one of the biggest local government pension scheme funds and one of the top 20 UK pension funds. The pension funds sub-sector (S.129) in the UK National Accounts is one of the largest institutional investor sectors. To talk to one of our experts about how Aon's Benefits Administration solutions could benefit your organisation, please call 0800 279 5588 or email talktous@aon.com.. At the end of 2019, according to the FSPS, it had assets of between £2.2 trillion and £2.7 trillion – depending on the measure used (Table 2). The total assets of the 300 largest pension funds worldwide increased by about 6% in 2016 to $15.7 trillion. 2. pension fund investments.1 Although many of the issues raised in this paper apply to all pension funds (public and private), the focus is on corporate pension funds for the following reasons: 1. The world’s 100 largest pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have over $19 trillion of assets under management, up 1.7% from last year. The NPS is one of the world’s largest pension funds with an estimated value of $320bn and its London office is only the second office the Service has opened outside Korea after New York. Tasked with providing retirement income to retirees, pension funds typically have large amounts of money to invest.