About
Brunel Pension Partnership is one of eight UK Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pools.
Our aim is to forge better futures by investing for a world worth living in.
We do this by making long-term, sustainable investments on behalf of our clients. By using our collective expertise, we seek to set an example for the industry, and to use our voice to argue for broader change. We are proud to be a recognised leader in Responsible Investment, and a driving force behind structural change in the financial industry.
Watch a video that shows how we deliver responsible investments with our partner funds.
An LGPS pool is a collaboration between a number of LGPS pension funds where their assets and investments are managed – or “pooled” – on a collective basis and by an operator such as Brunel. By pooling the assets our clients can achieve cost savings and better net performance, as well as tapping into a wealth of experience provided by Brunel staff.
We act as the pool operator for our client pensions funds: Avon, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Wiltshire and the Environment Agency.
Within the Brunel pool, we collectively manage over 80% of the total assets and investments held by our clients.
Our priority is to meet our fiduciary duties to our clients, by efficiently managing their LGPS funds, on behalf of their members. We specialise in portfolio construction and risk management, carefully selecting, appointing and monitoring asset managers who share our values and work in partnership with us, to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
We believe in forging better futures by investing for a world worth living in – so our partnership is based around major commitments on Responsible Investment.
In this way, we aim to help our clients provide not only for their members’ retirement, but for the world they will retire into.
Brunel is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a full-service MiFID firm. We act as the discretionary investment manager to our clients and are authorised by the FCA (reference no. 790168) for the conduct of investment business. Our FCA registration can be found here.
Values come first at Brunel. We believe that how we do our work will flow out of why we work. Our values, defined through workshop and consultation with our team, are the foundation of life at Brunel.
Responsibility, courage, partnership and passion run through everything we do and how we behave. Our small and dynamic team of experts works together in an open and trusting environment to deliver excellent outcomes for our clients and the world we live in.
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Information about out legal structures, how we handle information or data, our scheme of publication and how we manage Freedom of Information requests is on our Information page.
To find out more about who we are and what we do, why not leaf through our online Year in Review? It captures a few highlights of Brunel’s year and gives a flavour of what we do, but also of the why and the how.
What have we done in Responsible Investment? How have we worked on our culture? What’s our strategy? How are we targeting biodiversity, AI and climate change? What comes next? Find out how we are influencing policymakers, targeting our RI priorities, and investing in UK impact – and scan the map for examples of private markets projects around the UK.
So much happens in a year at Brunel, but we’ve kept this this one brief and colourful. Enjoy reading.
