Today's top news stories
UK roundup: Teachers' pension scheme liabilities grow by £76bn
Also: LGPS Central names non-execs; Serco’s pension fund grants BlackRock £1.5bn LDI mandate
Environment Agency Pension Fund makes first co-investment
£3.3bn pension scheme backed UK smart meter company as part of bid to cut investment costs
Largest Dutch schemes fail to generate quarterly returns
Biggest five funds relied on rising interest rates to improve funding as investment returns stall
EFAMA, ICMA: ‘no systemic risk’ from leverage in EU-based funds
Existing fund leverage rules sufficient for risk assessment, trade bodies argue
Dutch medical consultants scheme opens infra allocation
SPMS wants to increase infrastructure holdings to 5% of its total portfolio
People moves: Blue Sky investment policy chief exits for PWRI
PWRI, Blue Sky Group, Nordea Life & Pension, MP Pension, British Columbia IMC, Coal Pension Trustees, Allianz, Fidelity
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On the Record: How do you do operational due diligence?
Three pension funds - RPMI Railpen, Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company and Blue Sky Group - discuss their approach to operational due diligence
How We Run Our Money: PREVIP
Livio Raimondi, CIO of PREVIP, a €2.2bn multi-employer DC pension fund in Italy, talks about the fund’s growth aspirations
Briefing: MiFID II – The birth of a market
As MiFID II comes into effect, asset managers and brokers must negotiate a price for sell-side investment research
Briefing: Cyberwar without end
Financial institutions are involved in a cyber arms race against criminals
Briefing: Greece's political millstone
Uncertainties in the euro-zone pose a risk to Greece’s improving economy
Good to have, hard to achieve
Frameworks only take you so far: people create outcomes
Keep on top in the cyberwar
Cybersecurity is part of a never-ending arms race
US Equities: Opinions differ on valuations
Asset managers differ on whether or not the US equity market is overvalued
US Equities: The Trump reflation trade
The US president’s stated policies appear to have boosted the country’s already-reviving economy
US Equities: Stable despite the threats
Investors have not shied away from equities, despite the expectation that near-record low volatility might be due to turn soon
Guest viewpoint: Stefan Lundbergh & Kerrin Rosenberg, Cardano
“At present, UK trustees do not have the right governance framework in place to be effective or accountable”
Climate change: Incentives are the way forward
Generally missing from the discussion on climate change is an identification of the incentives that can drive change
Guest Viewpoint: Avida International
“Fiduciary management has turned into a sophisticated exercise of managing increasingly complex investment value chains”
Guest viewpoint: Francesco Briganti, EBWI Employee Benefits and Welfare Institute
It is widely known that EIOPA is studying the possibility of a new EU legal framework for a pan-European occupational defined contribution pension regime
Diary of an Investor: Looking the part
We at Wasserdicht Pension Funds have been using BIG Asset Management for what seems like an eternity. I have learned two things about BIG over the years
