Fixed Income – Page 47
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NewsNEST quadruples return amid shift to single-asset mandates
State-backed scheme increases assets by 300%, doubles membership over last financial year
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NewsClimate bond market grows by 20%, boosted by growth in green bonds
State of market report by Climate Bonds Initiative shows transport continues to dominate
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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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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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Asset manager involvement in lending market raises 'new risks' – BIS
Mandates can give rise to ‘leverage-like behaviour’ that amplifies financial stress, Bank for International Settlements warns
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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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Belgian pension fund OGEO increases assets to more than €1bn
Municipal employees scheme brings assets in-house but sees returns drop for second consecutive year
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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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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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Transport for London pension fund drops LGIM for BlackRock
Pension scheme for transport workers hands over majority of assets to BlackRock in LDI, passive equity mandates
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Switzerland's AHV drops soft commodities due to 'political sensitivity'
First-pillar fund’s future commodity investments to include energy, precious metals only
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CPPIB acquires GE private placement arm in $12bn deal
Canadian fund agrees to purchase Antares Capital to create platform for investment in US middle-market lending
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PPF 'disappointed' with UK pension funds' lack of interest in LDI
Chief executive says number of UK schemes using LDI contributed to lack of funding improvement since 2005
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APK calls for ‘scenario testing' over traditional valuation methods
Christian Böhm says QE making traditional valuation difficult, calls for assets to be evaluated for ‘sensitivity’ to scenarios
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PFZW demands ‘change in mentality’ over carbon emissions approach
Pension fund says its 2020 target to halve carbon emmisions should help create a more sustainable world
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Special ReportRegulatory environment still weighted against Europe's ABS market
The European market for asset-backed securities has ample potential but suffers as a result of an unfavourable regulatory regime
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Sampension reports record Q1 return driven by low interest rates
Pension fund says ECB purchase programme boosting fixed income portfolio helped produce strong quarterly position
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Publica returns boosted by equities, corporate bonds
Swiss public pension fund says 2014 returns would have been 8.9% if not for approach to hedging
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UWV scheme ups risk profile in favour of liquid assets
Change in asset allocation towards equity and mortgage bonds follows survey into participants’ risk appetite
