Investor Strategy – Page 2
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News
Citrus Pension Plan picks Russell Investments as implementation partner
Russell Investments will deliver investment strategy across Citrus’s £300m investment portfolio
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Pension funds foresee increased risk to assets and liabilities in 2025
77% of pension fund executives surveyed by Ortec Finance say they expect the coming year to bring an elevated risk profile
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: The new market reality requires a total portfolio approach
In this new era of lower returns with higher risk, investors must rethink how they balance risk, liquidity and returns with greater discernment and due diligence
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NEST takes 10% stake in Australia’s IFM with £5bn private markets commitment
UK’s NEST joins 16 Aussie super funds, taking 10% ownership stake in IFM’s holding company
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Ethos excludes Tesla shares from own funds raising governance issues
‘Musk is now part of an administration that wants to somehow fight Tesla’s own product, it is a contradiction,’ Ethos CEO Vincent Kaufmann says
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Generali Italia boosts investments in domestic private assets to €4.7bn
Increasing investments in the domestic economy are linked to the growth of the supplementary pension sector
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Interviews
European pension funds on investing in their home market: a delicate balance
Pension funds in Europe have been reducing their allocation to European assets, especially listed ones. While valuations may be attractive, there is little else to convince them to raise their investments in their home market
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News
Norway SWF underperforms index in 2024, hampered by allocation and real assets
‘Insurance is always expensive if your house doesn’t burn down,’ says Tangen
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APG and Rabobank invest €800m in new impact loans
The investment has been made through Colesco Capital, a new Rabobank-owned investment platform with a focus on sustainable corporate loans
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ATP launches own external evaluation process; critic rues narrow scope
Danish statutory pensions giant announces former FSA chief will chair panel of otherwise mostly foreign experts to scrutinise its strategy and approach
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Analysis
IPE Netherlands Briefing: First three schemes move to new DC system
Plus: ABP tells its in-house asset manager APG to shed all its other fiduciary clients by 2030
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Generali creates €1.9trn asset management JV with Natixis IM
Generali and BPCE have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for each to own 50% of the joint venture
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PFA warns of higher economic risks around China
Danish pensions giant says Trump’s election, and resulting asset manager exodus from climate cooperations, is clear signal that world is changing fast
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BarmeniaGothaer AM ditches third-party managers for corporate bonds
‘The new team we will be able to manage certain types of investments such as corporate bonds in the future,’ says co-CEO
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The People’s Pension targets £4bn private markets investment
The independent master trust aims to appoint a private markets specialist and to create a research capability, initially investing in infrastructure and real estate
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PGGM disbands advisory council amid row over new investment policy
The pension asset manager also tried to fire its chief economist for criticising the firm’s switch to ‘3D-investing’
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NBIM proposes cutting smaller EM stocks from SWF’s benchmark
Proposed change would excise thousands of Chinese stocks from GPFG’s €1.7trn portfolio
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Brunel appoints AssetMetrix for private markets data management
AssetMetrix’s platform will enable Brunel to streamline data processing and aggregation, while offering investors greater insights into private market assets
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ATP admits DKK2.3bn investment in Northvolt now worth almost zero
Danish statutory pensions giant’s CEO declines to rule out investing more in stricken battery Swedish firm
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PGGM ditches responsible investment team with new impact strategy
‘Even though this process required me to give up my old job, I still think it’s a good idea,’ says Piet Klop