Asset Allocation – Page 90
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News
Lancashire, London pension funds get go-ahead for partnership
Asset managers on alert as pair look to save £32m by merging mandates, shifting assets in-house
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NewsIrish SWF targets real assets, agriculture as it lays out strategy
Ireland Strategic Investment Fund highlights renewable energy, student housing as it pulls back from public/private partnerships
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Church of England divests oil exploration company over corruption concerns
Sale of stake comes after ‘extensive, sustained’ engagement fails to yield desired concessions on transparency
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EAPF hires Union Investment for sustainable equity mandate
Appointment complements previous allocation to Ownership Capital, sees fund exceed 25% sustainable investment allocation
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
This year looks like it could be remembered as the Bund sell-off year, or perhaps even the Bund Blowback, with one of the intraday price falls larger than any recorded (by Bloomberg) in the past quarter century
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Emerging hopes
Rachel Fixsen looks at the lifting of investment restrictions and their effect on the asset allocation strategies of Italian pension funds
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AnalysisAnalysis: How NEST wants to shape the future of retirement
Taha Lokhandwala studies the details of NEST’s planned at-retirement investment and decumulation strategy
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News
ECB to ‘act as backstop’ to protect markets from Greek default contagion
Asset managers call for calm in euro-zone despite expected Greek default
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NEST to blend deferred annuities, income drawdown in redesign
UK master trust to create three-phased retirement default system, providing members with income drawdown, cash and annuity
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OECD calls for vigilance on ‘search for yield’, lenience on solvency
Think tanks says excessive search for yield could lead to increased insolvency risk for pension funds
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Friends Life mandate with AXA IM handed over to Aviva Investors
Friends Life was one of UK’s largest insurers before its takeover by rival Aviva
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Concern over pension-fund shadow banks 'exaggerated', PIMCO says
Institutional investors have little in common with unregulated banks, asset manager says
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AP fund reforms undermine 'strongest competitive advantage' – Langensjö
Chairman of Buffer Fund Inquiry questions use of reference portfolio, warns changes could see shift to passive investment
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Private equity drives 15% return at West Midlands Pension Fund
Scheme sees bumper returns from listed, unlisted equity, sells out of commodities, hedge funds
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Lothian sees returns boosted by listed infrastructure, timber
Local authority fund returns 16.5% over 2014-15 financial year, ahead of benchmark
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Sweden to close AP6 buffer fund, consolidate unlisted assets into AP2
Government publishes long-awaited consultation on reform of buffer-fund system three years after conclusion of review
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Insurers, banks natural partners in long-term financing – Swiss Re
Former ECB head Trichet calls on institutions to ‘bias equities’
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NewsIcelandic pension funds agree to finance $300m silicon metal plant
Local pension funds to offer part of financing required for factory in country’s north
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Pension funds in search of yield at risk of 'herding', Swiss experts warn
Liquidity risk ‘on the rise’ as investors ramp up exposure to less liquid instruments
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Norway's KLP sells Chinese rail company over corruption concerns
Pensions provider divests further coal companies after selling nearly 30 last year
