News


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.


20th November 2023

ACCESS LGPS Pool appoints Pension & Investment Research Consultants Ltd (PIRC) as ESG & RI advisor

ACCESS has appointed Pension & Investment Research Consultants Ltd (PIRC) as its external Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) & Responsible Investment (RI) advisor following a National Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Framework Procurement, to implement the pools Phase II Responsible Investment Guidelines.

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6th November 2023

ACCESS LGPS Pool appoints CBRE Investment Management to UK and Global Property mandates

ACCESS has appointed CBRE Investment Management (“CBRE IM”) to manage both a UK Core real estate and a Global real estate mandates.

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19th August 2022

The ACCESS Pool is seeking a UK Core direct real estate investment manager and a Global real estate (fund of funds) allocator

The ACCESS Pool, which consists of assets totalling c.£35bn on behalf of participating Pension Funds, is seeking a UK Core direct real estate investment manager and a Global real estate (fund of funds) allocator.

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24th March 2022

ACCESS Progress Update

The ACCESS Progress Update gives an overview of our Pool and highlights key achievements over the last year.

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17th March 2022

ACCESS LGPS Investment Pool launches four new sub-funds to pool a further £3.2bn

The assets invested by the constituent schemes brings the total ACCESS Pool assets under management to £33.1bn.
Four new externally managed funds enhance the fixed income and UK equity solutions for the 11 Local Authorities.

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14th March 2022

ACCESS Joint Committee agrees observer proposals

At its meeting on Monday 7 March 2022, the ACCESS Joint Committee (JC) agreed proposals enabling each ACCESS Authority’s Local Pension Board (LPB) to send two observers, on a rotational basis, to Joint Committee meetings.

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9th March 2022

ACCESS Joint Committee statement on Russian invasion of Ukraine

The ACCESS Joint Committee met on Monday 7 March 2022.

At that meeting the 11 Local Authorities that make up the ACCESS Pool unanimously condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms.

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13th January 2022

ACCESS LGPS Pool appoints MJ Hudson as implementation advisor for pooling of illiquid assets

The ACCESS Pool has this month appointed MJ Hudson, the specialist service provider to the asset management industry, as implementation advisor for the pooling of illiquid assets, including private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate.

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3rd March 2021

ACCESS LGPS Pool appoints Minerva as ESG adviser

Minerva Analytics will be helping ACCESS with a comprehensive review and revision of the pool’s responsible investment guidelines to ensure they capture the very latest thinking on Environmental Social and Governance (ESG), Stewardship and Climate Change issues.

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