
Alastair O'Dell
LGPS Central on overcoming pooling challenges
Private markets head Nadeem Hussain talks to PMP about transitioning legacy assets and the LGPS investment pool’s next steps to optimise its strategies

UK VC needs scale-up firepower to retain innovation
Aviva and L&G highlight risks of losing value overseas while others call for cultural change and government support

UK climate tech VC start-ups prove commercial case
Net-zero tech drives high-quality job creation and productivity, as investors back-deep tech solutions across the energy transition

DC industry formulates solutions to VC challenges
Consultants offer different perspectives on fund structures, educational requirements and the suitability of opportunities

Bridging the clean energy scale-up gap
Octopus Energy Generations’s Zoe Reich speaks to PMP about why the next phase of the energy transition depends on investment in technology and why investors should view it as a commercial opportunity rather than a policy-driven necessity.

Seizing opportunities in the net-zero economy
Beverley Gower-Jones, managing partner of Clean Growth Fund, talks to PMP about the scale of the clean economy, the investment opportunities, and why innovation…

Church of England ramps up social investments
Vanessa Morphet tells PMP about how the Church’s social impact fund is building up its allocations across social housing and climate change adaptation and resilience

USS provides masterclass in private markets
The UK’s leading non-governmental DB pension scheme investor in private markets talks to PMP about building its exposures over almost twenty years

Ian Connatty sets out his aims for BGP
Managing partner outlines his aims and strategy for the British Business Bank’s new British Growth Partnership investment arm

TPT builds scale one block at a time
CEO and head of investment management tell PMP how the scheme consolidator uses its building block strategy to achieve economies of scale across multiple types of pension proposition

How private markets can support sustainability
Gresham House’s Peter Bachmann talks to PMP about how a new generation of DC pension funds and insurers are turning to real assets to combine financial returns and environmental impacts

Clara targets the DB private markets conundrum
ClaraPensions CEO tells PMP that illiquid allocations do not have to be a barrier for defined benefit pension schemes seeking to secure an insurer buyout
