All Covid-19 articles – Page 3
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News
APG increases focus on Dutch investments
‘The current climate is especially suited for active investors’
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Portuguese funds claw back COVID-19 losses with 2.3% return for 2020
2020 saw ‘huge’ interest in hedging interest rate risk
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Hayfin sees record deployment via direct lending strategy
Investors include the UK’s Staffordshire Pension Fund and the North East Scotland Pension Fund
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Allianz Global Investors: looking at social impact investing post COVID
‘Exclusion is an issue that has evolved over time. It continues to be raised bringing challenges for investors’
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Special Report
Private markets: A shift in priorities
The COVID-19 pandemic has modified the selection process for managers of real assets and private equity
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Features
Perspective: UK actuaries and COVID-19 – Exceeding expectations
COVID-19 has brought few positive outcomes but the response from UK actuaries could become a template for bringing other strategic challenges to the fore
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DACH pension funds prepare for potential inflation hike
SBB expects inflation to rise over the next one to two years but to a limited extent, while interest rates will level off at a slightly higher level than today
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Dutch pension funds return an average 10.2% for 2020
Pension funds made the best returns on their interest rate hedges, as interest rates dropped to record lows over the year
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Swedes get higher state pensions after COVID cuts life expectancy
Early statistical indications show life expectancy fell by around 1% in 2020, says pensions agency
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Features
Fixed Income, Rates, Currencies: Priming the pump
Although COVID-19 infection rates are falling across many regions, the ‘success’ is more a reflection of lockdown restrictions keeping opportunities for virus spread low.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from US: COVID and racial justice to the fore
The 2021 proxy season’s hot issues are human capital management related to COVID-19 and social justice. Several large US public pension funds are at the forefront of these campaigns together with non-profit shareholder advocacy organisations like the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and As You Sow, a non-profit foundation that promotes corporate accountability.
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Special Report
Pandemic booster shot for social bonds
Social bond issuance rockets in reaction to the coronavirus
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News
British Airways defers £450m in contributions
The deferral will be backed by security granted by BA over specified property assets
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European stimulus package arriving by snail mail, laments Veritas CIO
Varma CIO says investment market not reacting to vaccine delay, variations
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Nordics roundup: PFA generates DKK31bn in 2020
Plus: Ilmarinen boosts solvency after 7.1% investment return; Alecta’s total assets rise to SEK1.04trn
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UK roundup: Smart Pension to provide platform to Barclays clients and employees
Plus: PPF launches consultation on actuarial assumptions; UK DB schemes’ health surpasses pre-COVID-19 levels
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Special Report
On the record: The path to recovery
Six major pension investors chart the risks and opportunities ahead as the world moves into a recovery phase
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Features
The pandemic end-game
Overcoming COVID-19 and ensuring no recurrence is proving to be a formidable challenge for the global economy. The worst may still lie ahead. Even health systems in developed markets are creaking at the seams with the second and third waves of the pandemic. More transmissible mutations of the virus are making the task even harder.
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Special Report
Special Report: European Pension Funds’ COVID Response
We also analyse how public development banks are going beyond their traditional remit, with a focus on post-COVID recovery, tackling climate change and meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Special Report
Development banks evolve
Development banks are going beyond their traditional economic remit to embrace tackling climate change and meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals