2020 Wish list | Feature


Frances Deakin Head of responsible investment Local Pensions Partnership


Responsible investing sits within


a world that is rapidly evolving. A regulatory focus on responsible investing would be great for the LGPS.


Ultimately, we are all regulated,


so it is whether regulation is keep- ing up with demand from the general public and from members of pen- sion funds. It is specific to the LGPS because we have already had a step forward on the trustee pension fund side.


The big question at the moment


is do the regulations support the direction of travel. LGPS regulation needs to catch up. It might be a red herring in that Brexit and the election have slowed down getting this stuff on the agenda, so perhaps it is more of a timing thing than a will thing.


Mark Hedges Chief investment officer Nationwide Pension Fund


I hope we see sufficient growth


from the Asian economies to offset what I expect will be a downturn in the general worldwide economy. Any- thing that helps maintain that would be a good thing.


Alan Pickering President BESTrustees


I would like to see the regulators,


the Treasury and the DWP adopt a root and branch review of the inter- action between prescriptive regula- tion and the broad principles that we are trying to apply.


Every time we get new regulation


it is added to whole raft of existing regulation. So, there is a need for a wholesale clear-out of all these regulations.


It may well be a beneficial aspect


Mark Mansley Chief investment officer Brunel Pension Partnership


Greater clarity over regulation and the business environment is always useful for investors. We may have that now over Brexit but the area we would really like to see a clearer, stronger sense of direction for is climate change, where action is becoming ever more urgent.


to Brexit, if there is a beneficial aspect to Brexit, that we are going to have a root and branch review of what rules and regulation we need. Some of the ones that have been built in London might be put on the same bonfire as those that have been built in Brussels. It is a chance to take stock and build policies that are forward looking rather than rear- view mirror reactions to yesterday’s problem.


It is almost a summit of the


informed where we can pull together all of these strands so we can move forward in a holistic way


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