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Changing of the guard at France's buffer fund FRR
Fonds de réserve pour les retraites has had a management and investment refresh
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France’s FRR picks new CIO
Pierre-Olivier Billard, head of the fund’s asset allocation department, replaces Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr
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FRR renews William Blair as latest US equity managers appointed
Mandates include more stringent decarbonisation targets
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France’s FRR ramps up equities as investment horizon extended
Pension reserve fund estimates a median €1.8bn in extra value creation by 2033
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FRR nets 9.68% in 2023 as return asset boost brings H2 benefits
Reserve fund also announces that CIO Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr has been appointed to executive board
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Olivier Rousseau exits French pension reserve fund
Executive director decides not to seek a third term, but does not plan to retire
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France: Macron’s reforms look secure
President Macron’s pension reforms may have their detractors, but the hung parliament is not expected to roll back any of them significantly
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The case for custom indices to meet sustainability goals
Asset owners are increasingly seeking more bespoke solutions to meet their sustainability goals
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IPE Conference: Pension fund CIOs keep faith in alternatives
CERN pension fund and Denmark’s Industriens Pension still see opportunities in private assets
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2021 Investment Horizons: The QE endgame
An executive board member at Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), France’s €25bn pension reserve fund, charts a way to relieve the global debt burden
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France’s FRR announces 6.95% return, highlights domestic financing
Result keeps asset shrinkage to €315m
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Mandate roundup: FRR awards corporate bond mandates
Plus: Border to Coast launches £3.7bn multi-asset credit fund
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Mandate roundup: FRR picks managers for overlay strategies
Plus: Italian pension fund awards bonds mandate
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France: U-turn for FRR
COVID-19 has put paid to the FRR pension reserve fund’s planned transition to a new status and investment model
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FRR seeks new equity indices for Paris-alignment mandates
Further fossil fuel reduction and overweighting of solution-bringers on the cards
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FRR reports 1% performance for 2020 as withdrawals weigh
French reserve fund says performance was affected by ‘prudent bias’ given exceptional withdrawals
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How we run our money: FRR
Olivier Rousseau, member of the executive board of Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, talks about regulation, ESG and his vision for the markets
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Pension funds on the record: The investors developing their own index methodologies
FRR and PUBLICA are among the growing number of European pension funds developing proprietary benchmarks to achieve their sustainability objectives
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Corporate governance: Investors rethinking Say on Climate votes
To prevent investors from being overloaded, the French SIF has begun evaluating every Say on Climate proposal in France
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Germany's first-pillar pension reform plans: tough to meet expectations
How would you design your asset allocation if you were building a portfolio from scratch? This is the question facing the governors of Germany’s new state pension buffer fund, the grandly titled ‘Generationenkapital’ (Generational Capital) fund. The expectations are high.