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Government Pension Review

3rd December 2024: Work has been initiated to explore all options on how ACCESS responds to the new requirements. These options include building a new investment company.


3rd December 2024

Government Pension Review

Work has been initiated to explore all options on how ACCESS responds to the new requirements. These options include building a new investment company.

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15th November 2024

Mansion House speech

ACCESS notes the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Mansion House speech last night and in particular the references to the LGPS aspects of the Government’s recent Pension Review.

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12th November 2024

ACCESS Pool reaches £50bn milestone

12th November 2024: ACCESS Pool, a collaboration of Central, Eastern and Southern Shires composed of 11 LGPS Administering Authorities and brought together from the original Pooling guidance in 2015, today announces that it has reached the £50bn assets under management (aum) mark.

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3rd October 2024

ACCESS Pool appoints Orchard Street as Impact Real Estate manager

The ACCESS Pool announces that it has appointed Orchard Street Investment Management (“Orchard Street”) to manage its Impact Real Estate strategy and has made an [initial] £100 million commitment.

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1st October 2024

Six local Authorities invest funds in the ACCESS Pool property solution

The ACCESS Pool announces that a further six of its 11 Administering Authorities have made their first commitments to the pool’s property solution.

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25th September 2024

ACCESS welcomes new Contracts Manager

Experienced pensions professional Richard Smith joins ACCESS Pool after 20 years at Northern Trust

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12th September 2024

ACCESS Support Unit are hiring for two new roles

We are recruiting two new analyst positions: a Responsible Investment (RI) Analyst and a Pool Analyst, who will play key roles in the planning, delivery and co-ordination of the Pool’s RI and Business Plan priorities.

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22nd August 2024

The ACCESS Pool is seeking Senior Secured Direct Lending Strategies in Europe and United States

The ACCESS Pool, which consists of assets totalling c.£45bn on behalf of participating Pension Funds, is seeking to select Senior Secured Direct Lending strategies across two distinct mandates focusing on European and US markets, respectively.  

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19th August 2024

There are multiple paths to LGPS pool and fund success

The outcome of the general election broadly aligned with forecasts of a number of pollsters: it produced a new party of government, with a Commons majority the scale of which has not been seen for 20 years. Labour in office now have opportunity.

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