Asset Allocation – Page 106
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NewsSwedish pension fund SPK unveils new investment strategy
Changes are biggest in history of fund, chief executive says
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BT Pension Scheme transfers £16bn of longevity risk in mammoth deal
Scheme sets up own insurance company to access re-insurance market directly
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Denmark's Danica kicks off new strategy with direct investment
Corporate pensions provider to replace some of bond portfolio with company stakes
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Credit markets: The importance of agility
Agility should be the watchword in the new bond environment, according to Hermes Credit’s Mitch Reznick and Fraser Lundie
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NewsWednesday people roundup
Investor Forum, PostNL, LGIM, BAPI, BVV, USS, F&C Investments, Nordea AM, Vontobel AM, AXA IM, SCIO Capital, Société Générale Securities Services
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Illiquidity concerns increase over ‘missing party’ in fixed income markets
Amundi CIO to ‘accept any phone calls’ regarding availability of corporate debt
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Berkshire considers direct investment in residential real estate
UK local authority scheme allowed to launch property subsidiary if it acquires local portfolio
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UBS to increase liquidity in TAA fund over ‘end of cycle’ expectations
Swiss manager to shift risks away from illiquidity, credit towards equity to avoid run on fixed income
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Features
The big picture
The ECB’s actions and words after its June meeting were met with approval throughout the world’s capital markets. As much of what was announced was already priced in, there was a fairly muted response, which wasn’t sufficient to weaken the euro too much.
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Church of England to tighten ethical investment restrictions
Church to lower ‘revenue threshold’ for investment exclusions from 25% to just 10%
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Nordic pension funds lament reporting impact on asset allocation
Ilmarinen, SEB say quarterly reporting, short-term peer comparisons ‘detrimental’ to strategies
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Cornwall mulls property collaboration with other local authority funds
CBRE Global Investors’ multi-manager mandate under review
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NewsPKA invests DKK1.3bn in Denmark's biggest hospital PPP
Danish labour-market pensions provider part of consortium of three
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NewsNorwegian oil fund to double number of company holdings above 5%
Government Pension Fund Global to grow ‘anchor investor’ holdings, listed real estate companies, infrastructure
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Hedge funds should be partners, say AIMA and Barclays
Leading investors focusing on knowledge-sharing, co-investment and customisation, says report
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Work still needed on 'big debate' over illiquid DC investments, says BlackRock
UK head of DC calls for political stability on incoming default fund charge cap
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Pension funds' fixation on past performance 'damaging wealth' – study
Rotman paper shows return profiles correlate to allocation decisions, ‘damage’ returns over long term
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PFZW to revamp portfolio, focusing on sustainability, 'comprehensibility'
Healthcare scheme to review reasons for having invested in more than 20 asset classes
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UK refusal to increase index-linked issuance 'creating risks' for pension funds
Some 40% of pension funds want inflation exposure, but reluctant to enter real estate, infrastructure and derivatives
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DB investors to use alternative credit for both opportunistic, structured allocation
Investor sentiment to use alternative credit, emerging market debt for short-term up, 36 percentage point rise in use
