2016/17 Pension Fund Investment Data as MS Excel File

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Mika Minio-Paluello

Dear Barnet Borough Council,

Please provide the sum total of pension fund investments, and full details of what the Council Pension Fund currently invests in, including the full name and amounts of each fund, bond, institution or investment held, by asset class/ category, and provided in Microsoft excel format for the 2016/17 financial year.
Yours faithfully,

Mika Minio-Paluello

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Mika Minio-Paluello

Dear Barnet Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Barnet Borough Council's handling of my FOI request '2016/17 Pension Fund Investment Data as MS Excel File'.

Thanks for the link to Barnet's Pension Fund Performance document. However, this doesn't include the information we requested.

We asked for full details of what the Pension Fund invests in, including the full name and amount of each investment. This should include a breakdown of equities. We also requested this data in Excel spreadsheet format.

The document sent to us
* Contains a list of managed funds (e.g. LGIM Global Equuity). This is not a breakdown of all investments, or of specific equity shareholdings.
* Contains the v limited data in a pdf - not a .xls spreadsheet

To reiterate, we are requesting a full breakdown of all equity shareholdings held by the pension fund, and other non equity shareholdings - in a spreadsheet format.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/2...

Yours faithfully,

Mika Minio-Paluello

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Dear Mr Minio-Paluello
 
I write further to our email acknowledging your request for an internal
review into the handling of your request for information. 
 
You have requested an internal review of the Council’s response in
relation to your request as you are seeking a more detailed breakdown of
investments by the Barnet Pension Fund.  Your complaint is not upheld.   
I have undertaken the internal review and the outcome of my review is set
out below.
 
The previous information provided to you was correct.  The pension fund
invests in unit trusts and managed funds, whose details are fully listed
in the quarterly report presented to the Pension Committee.  These are
multi-client funds in which we are purchasing a proportion of the return
generated by the funds, and not partial ownership of the underlying
instruments.  In some cases the investments are structured as insurance
policies that generate a return based on a specified equity index and do
not transfer ownership of the underlying securities. 
 
Do you still require the information reported to the Pension Fund
Committee to be supplied to you in an excel format?  If so, let me know
and I will ak our Finance team if they are able to provide this to you in
the format requested.
 
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Yours sincerely
 
 
Richard Carter
Information Management Officer
Commissioning Group
London Borough of Barnet, North London Business Park, Oakleigh Road South,
London N11 1NP
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