All Covid-19 articles – Page 4
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Special ReportSpecial 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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Opinion PiecesThe 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 ReportOn 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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News
VBV sees AUM rise at slower pace year-on-year in 2020
Total assets rose by 6.3% in 2020 to a total €12.7bn, despite the pandemic
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NewsAustrian Pensionskassen bounce back to positive returns in 2020
Austrian Pensionskassen increased the amount of sustainable investments to €20.5bn last year, up 25.8% compared to €16.3bn in 2019
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Denmark’s €1.3bn crisis fund ready to invest; Möger Pedersen chairs
Former ATP chief Stendevad appointed as board member
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Austrian investment funds see AUM peak all-time high in 2020
Net inflows saw an uptick after an outflow of €3.2bn in March at the peak of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Blended finance and impact
Delivering the 2030 Agenda in the COVID-19 era and beyond
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News
Dutch fiduciaries make switch to online manager selection
‘It’s really though to get the same information out of an online meeting as you would during on-site visits’
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NewsSwiss BVK readjusts equity portfolio to profit from market fluctuations
BVK will adopt a new plan – Strategy 2021+ – from February to increase its allocation to equity, global real estate and infrastructure
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NewsSwitch to video meetings puts Norway’s SWF off new managers
NBIM suggests low bond volatility undermines some of its rationale for including FI
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Vaccine rally saves Dutch pension funds from having to cut pensions
The 90% minimum funding level will be valid until 2026, though a 95% level is needed for transition into the new DC-based system
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Asset Class ReportsInvestment Grade Credit: Always a demand for quality
Capital markets are fluctuating between optimism and pessimism
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FeaturesBriefing: Japan emerging from its invisible lockdown
Japan is all too often portrayed as being different from other countries. Not just distinctive in the obvious sense that every country has its own national peculiarities. Instead, somehow unique in a way that makes it stand out from every other country.
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Opinion PiecesUncertain conditions call for a steady course
The impact of COVID-19 has made long-term strategies that embrace resilience a high priority for pension funds to ensure there is a smoother ride during turbulent times.
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FeaturesFixed Income, Rates, Currencies: A very different recovery
Amongst the remarkable happenings in 2020, from startling news of a pandemic to viable vaccine and beyond, has been the speed and scale of interventions from central banks and governments.
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Opinion PiecesJapan is not that different
One of the abiding myths about Japan is that it is different from everywhere else. Not just distinctive in the sense that all countries have peculiarities but uniquely different.
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FeaturesResearch: The shift from virtue to value
In the final article in a series of two, Pascal Blanqué and Amin Rajan argue that the success of ESG investing rests on a just transition to a low carbon future
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News
Danish FSA dismayed by differences in how pension funds value alts
Watchdog says some unlisted asset types being revalued daily, but others quarterly
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NewsStewardship roundup: APG co-files Amazon shareholder proposal
Plus: Investors keep up tailings dam standard momentum
