IPE's Italy Coverage – Page 12
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Opinion PiecesGreen ambitions to drive recovery
Last month, Italy announced its first foray into the hot market of green bonds by raising a record €8.5bn (see page 9).
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Italy roundup: Pension funds seize first Italian green bonds offering
Plus: Pegaso’s active shareholder approach on ESG; Fondoposte, Alifond postpone engagement policy
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NewsItaly records high demand for first green bond offering
Funds can be deployed in sectors including renewable electricity and heat, energy efficiency, transport, pollution prevention and control and circular economy
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Italy roundup: Monte dei Paschi scheme seeks ESG, financial advisers
Plus: PreviAmbiente issues garantito mandate, Mario Negri tenders US equities, Fondo Creval searches DB manager
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Opinion Pieces‘Whatever it takes’ may not be enough
Italy has another new government; the 67th since 1946. An argument over the management of EU COVID-19 recovery funds led to the appointment of Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank (ECB), as prime minister. He is after all credited with saving the euro-zone by pledging to do “whatever it takes” during the 2012 debt crisis.
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Italy roundup: Laborfonds tops 9.93% performance for dinamica fund
Plus: Pegaso, Byblos, Cometa, FondoPoste, Gomma Plastica
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NewsItaly roundup: Pension funds pull positive returns in 2020 despite pandemic
Fopdire, Previmoda, Foncer, Previp, Fondapi, Eurofer, Inarcassa
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Italian industry-wide DC funds team up for private debt investment
Four funds have committed €195m in total
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NewsItaly roundup: Priamo tenders fixed income, mid-cap equity mandates
Plus: Enpav to allocate €30m to real estate; Enasarco expects lower contributions; ENPAM approves 2021 budget
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Italy roundup: Inarcassa rejigs government bonds allocation
Plus: Pension fund returns improve, Fopen seeks fund depositary, Fondoposte elects president, VP, Previp chooses Anima Sgr over BNP Paribas
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NewsItaly roundup: Fon.te awards €800m mandate to Credit Suisse AM
Plus: Perseo Sirio ups assets in garantito, bilanciato options; Laborfonds names new finance director; Enpapi appoints new general manager
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Italy roundup: Inarcassa sets out new strategic asset allocation plan
Plus: Byblos tenders ‘dinamico’ fund mandate; BNL scheme picks AIFs for infrastructure; UniCredit plan merges with ex CariTrieste
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NewsItaly roundup: Alifond tenders seven mandates worth €550m
Plus: Fondenel’s ESG strategy; Fondo Creval names new president, vice president; Postal scheme extends BNP Paribas’ contract
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NewsItalian institutional investors saw 2019 AUM rise to €917.36bn
€95bn was managed through mandates in 2019 compared to €112bn in 2018
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NewsPandemic to cause ‘immediate effect’ on INPS financial sustainability
INPS had already recorded negative results before the pandemic started to hit Italy hard in February and March
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Special ReportItaly: Pandemic paves the way for the next phase of reform
Italian policymakers will be under pressure to upgrade the three-pillar pension system over the coming years
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Intesa Sanpaolo issues €1bn in equity, bond mandates
The scheme is seeking managers for US and euro corporate bonds, global high yield corporate bonds, among others
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InterviewsHow we run our money: ENPAB
Danilo Pone, CIO of ENPAB, the first-pillar scheme for Italian biologists, talks about the fund’s new proprietary asset allocation model
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Italy’s Covip expects drop in contributions due to pandemic response
Padula calls for stronger fiscal incentives in order to encourage workers to restart contributing after the crisis
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NewsMandate roundup: LGPS Central launches multi-asset credit manager search
Plus: Cometa awards €1.4bn to Generali; German investor tenders hIgh bond yields brief
