Strathclyde Pension Fund

Strathclyde Pension Fund is one of the 2 biggest LGPS funds, one of the top 20 UK pension funds and one of the top 50 European pension funds. Strathclyde Pension Fund began in 1975 with assets valued at £126.7million.

United Kingdom

$42

3.60

Richard McIndoe

Jacqueline Gillies

Sandy Watson

49.6% Equity

10.4% Hedging and Insurance

4.3% Credit

14.3% Short Term Enhanced Yield

19.1% Long Term Enhanced Yield

2.3% Cash

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Asset allocation as of March 31, 2025. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

Sustainability

LGPS Strathclyde invests more in impact; boasts highest funded level ever

LGPS Strathclyde, the £31 billion ($41 billion) pension fund for public sector employees in the Glasgow area is planning to increase its impact allocation to 7.5 per cent, after also celebrating its highest funded level ever.

Sarah Rundell

April 17, 2025

Asset Allocation

Strathclyde cuts equity allocation

The UK’s largest public pension fund is de-risking its successful equities portfolio and looking to private debt, emerging-market debt, global credit and UK infrastructure to fill the void.

Sarah Rundell

October 26, 2017

Asset Allocation

Equities sell down

To better manage downside risk, the second-largest UK local government pension scheme has a plan to gradually alter its equity allocation.

Sarah Rundell

February 12, 2016

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Fewer, bigger funds for UK?

Australia, the US, Canada and Denmark have all done it. Kazakhstan and even Oman are talking about it. Increasingly, public sector pension funds are merging or pooling their assets into fewer bigger schemes. It’s no surprise the debate is gathering momentum in the United Kingdom, ripe for consolidation with a Local Government Pension Fund Scheme

Sarah Rundell

June 07, 2013

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Real estate the object of desire for UK funds

United Kingdom pension funds will increase their real estate allocations as bond and equity investments continue to disappoint, according to new research by property consultancy Jones Lang Lasalle. The funds typically hold around 5 per cent of their assets in real estate, but the recent findings predict the pendulum will swing in favour of much

Sarah Rundell

January 16, 2013

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Alternative benchmarks attractive for Strathclyde

For many trustees, fundamental indexing is still too much of a leap to risk any serious asset allocation. But the £11 billion Glasgow-based Strathclyde Pension Fund, one of the largest UK local authority schemes, plans to invest in the strategy. The idea is to track an equity index that weights companies according to their economic

Sarah Rundell

December 12, 2012

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