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LaurenMills

Private assets still a priority for pension fund investors

September 2023 (Magazine)By

Investor sentiment towards private markets continues to be positive, despite the continuing challenges of higher interest rates and ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty.

Luigi Serenelli at IPE

Resistance to Germany’s new buffer fund proposal

September 2023 (Magazine)By

Last year, the manager of Germany’s pay-as-you-go first-pillar scheme, Deutsche Rentenversicherung, recorded income of €363bn, the largest share coming from contributions (€275.6bn), and €87.4bn in public subsidies. 

Maton Brendan

Cambridge and Westminster: a tale of two pension schemes

September 2023 (Magazine)By Brendan Maton

The Houses of Parliament and Cambridge University are two venerable British institutions. But the differences in how they run their pension arrangements illustrate the contrast between the UK-style pooled liability-driven investment (LDI) and a more traditional form of pension investing, no longer as popular in the UK but still common elsewhere.

Liam Kennnedy

Europe escaped the Great Retirement Boom but watch out for the crunch

September 2023 (Magazine)By

Continental Europe appears to have largely escaped the trend known in the US as the ‘Great Retirement Boom’, where an economically comfortable cohort of 50 to 64-year-olds has retreated from work in the post-COVID period. 

Liam Kennnedy

Capital competition: where does it leave sustainability goals?

July/August 2023 (Magazine)By

For pension funds and other similar large institutional pools of capital, there is significant pressure from politicians to invest in politically favoured domestic sectors – like renewables or high-growth sectors like venture capital. 

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