Asset Allocation – Page 95
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Greenwich continues strategy shift with £100m emerging market mandate
Tender comes as local authority fund overhauls strategic allocation, growing exposure to equities
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North Yorkshire fund targets direct SME lending with strategy 'tweak'
Pension fund drops Amundi as liability-matching manager
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Global economic growth stuttered badly during 2015, as China and other emerging markets struggled to keep going
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NewsDutch government rejects call for leeway on pension-fund risk profiles
Additional margin neither necessary or desirable, Social Affairs Ministry says
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DB schemes still keen on insourcing, private equity – State Street
Asset Owner Survey shows strong trend toward greater internal management
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Norges Bank bemoans lack of scale for developing nations’ infrastructure
Comments come as Norwegian government urged to grow fund’s mandate into infrastructure, EM property
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Hermes shrugs off loss of 'marginally profitable' £8.4bn bond mandate
Loss of nearly 30% of assets of little concern due to low-cost nature of mandate
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NewsSeven Swiss institutions join forces to found ESG association
New player in stakeholder engagement, sustainable investment
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Country Report
Asset allocation rethink
Pension funds are having to rethink their asset allocation policies to meet funding requirements. A more holistic, multi-dimensional approach is needed
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Risk markets have regained their poise after the China-triggered summer sell-offs, the mood aided by Chinese interest rate easing and the prospect of more European liquidity. The oil price, having fluctuated, appears to be finding an equilibrium which, given its proxy as a barometer of risk, may signal a pick-up in risk appetite.
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Re-defining asset classes
Switzerland’s double whammy of a strong currency and negative interest rates represents a formidable challenge for the pension fund industry, says Daniel Ben-Ami
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Features
Asset Allocation: Ahead of the Curve - Sales drive private-equity alpha
A recent study of 450 realised private-equity deals finds that sales growth is a key component for alpha generation, according to Ian Roberts
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NewsNew powers to direct LGPS investment 'unprecedented', says Eversheds
New regulations would give UK government power to direct actions at local authority funds
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Funding reserve poses ‘considerable challenge’ for Irish schemes
LCP warns over challenges facing industry as 10% risk reserve requirement comes into effect
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NewsLGPS to abolish investment restrictions as details of pooling announced
Government publishes guidelines on structural reform, pledges shift to investment based on prudent person principle
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FRR to invest €2bn in illiquids after government extends horizon
French pension reserve fund given permission to invest beyond 2024
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London CIV hires four managers for £6bn worth of mandates
Collective investment vehicle for London councils to launch nine sub-funds by end of current financial year
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LPFA pooling vehicles 'opening up' to other local authorities
Chief executive says infrastructure JV always launched with wider participation from LGPS in mind
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NewsAlternatives boost returns at Dutch, Danish schemes – OECD
Pension Market in Focus report notes link between growing alternatives exposure, high returns
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Greenwich tenders £100m alternatives mandate after strategy overhaul
Mandate set to include infrastructure, property, emerging market debt and hedge funds
