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Welcome to the Professional Investment Podcast! This podcast is targeted at people involved in the professional investment industry – in particular, those who are involved in how large institutions, such as pension schemes and insurance companies, allocate their billions.
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How insurers are investing in the UK – with Ciaran Mulligan, CIO of M&G Life (opens the original)
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Ciaran Mulligan, CIO of M&G Life, is our guest on the latest episode of The Professional Investment Podcast. He chose Professional Pensions’ story that insurers invest £22.8bn in UK productive assets since pledge in 2024 as his news story of the week. Investing in the UK must meet M&G Life’s fiduciary duty. When the right assets can be found, these assets not only provide the returns required but can also improve the economy and society. Ciaran explained he runs two books of business – a with-pr
Benchmarking consequences – with Mithesh Varsani, head of investment solutions at Scottish Widows (opens the original)
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Mithesh Varsani, head of investment solutions at Scottish Widows, is our guest for the first episode of series seven of The Professional Investment Podcast. He chose MandateWire’s ‘Are Australia’s pension funds stuck in a performance testing loop?’ as his news story of the week. This article raises interesting questions for UK policy makers as they put together the value for money framework. This will operate a traffic-light system based on how a scheme performs. There are questions as to whethe
The Best of Series Six: The Professional Investment Podcast (opens the original)
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Watch or listen to the best of series six of The Professional Investment Podcast. This series we cover how the insurance industry will invest the forecast £550bn it will receive from closed DB schemes. We have a guide to the Pension Schemes Bill as well as how to reshape the regulator. Portfolio construction is unpacked including how to improve longevity and the advantages of dynamic debt allocation. We explore whether schemes can suffer from diseconomies of scale. Finally, we talk about how to
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