Investor Strategy – Page 15
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KLP banishes US prison stocks due to refugee treatment
Norwegian municipal pensions giant finds little credibility in reassurance from CoreCivic and GEO Group
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Norway’s SWF aims for top climate investor, sets net zero goal
Government warns that inflation risk demands caution on using too much oil money in hungry 2023 budget
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NewsGrowing alternatives portfolio saves PFA from worse H1 fate
Danish commercial pensions heavyweight suffers DKK214m business loss in six months, says mainly due to volatile financial markets
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NewsPFA rapped by Danish FSA over alternatives risks
Danish commercial pensions heavyweight told to correct strategic approach to alternative investments
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AMF invests €35m in privately-held Swedish fossil-free steel company
Firm aims to produce 5m tons fossil-free steel a year from 2030 says Swedish pensions giant
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AP1’s insourcing journey: In-house more advantageous in volatile market
Swedish buffer fund has no plans to replace external management duo
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Varma neck and neck with Ilmarinen as hedge funds pay off in H1
Finnish pension insurance company joint number one in AUM terms with €56.7bn
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NewsInsurers pile into German Spezialfonds in first half
Insurers overtook the amounts invested by pension funds for the first time in years
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NewsNBIM wants extras in reporting requirements on transition plans
Norway’s SWF manager lauds transparency around offsets in IFRS climate disclosures draft
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Cometa picks AXA, Amundi as new asset managers in overhaul worth €11bn
The move follows a review of its investment policy leading to an increase of the risk profile of its three sub-funds while maintaining a prudent approach
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Poll shows 10 percentage-point rise in ESG use by alternatives investors over 3 years
Two thirds of European investors in private equity, infrastructure, now have climate policies compared to less that a quarter of their US peers, new survey shows
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NEST appoints HarbourVest as part of £1.5bn private equity push
New mandate will play an important role in helping NEST invest around 5% of its portfolio in private equity
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Dutch pharmacist fund ups equity risk in new pension system
Pensioenfonds Openbare Apothekers (SPOA) is the first professional fund to have designed a pension arrangement for the new DC pension system
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Alecta says ‘not unlikely’ markets will fall further in 2022, also hitting RE
Sweden’s largest pension fund suffers 12.7% H1 investment loss, but rising rates slash liabilities
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Sovereign wealth funds switch to private markets in major asset reallocation
SWF investors now own $719bn in private assets, up from $205bn in 2011
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NewsBorder to Coast commits final investments in first £5.7bn private markets programme
In total, the programme invested into 61 funds and made three co-investments
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British Steel picks LGIM for DB scheme, in-house team to transfer
LGIM and Legal & General Retail Investments already manage and insure just under 40% of the scheme’s assets
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PGGM, Alecta sign €2.1bn credit risk sharing deal with German bank
The transaction on a portfolio of corporate loans shifts 20% of default risk to the two pension investors
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West Yorkshire Pension Fund to use derivatives ESG risk framework
Framework will be used to build an ESG-aware derivatives overlay as fund gradually builds its portfolio of illiquid, alternative assets
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Dutch physiotherapist scheme goes passive with custom-made ESG benchmark
The fund has swapped €400m in fund investments for a passively managed ESG mandate
