All IPE articles in December 2023 (online)
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InterviewsExit interview: Oliver Morley, Pension Protection Fund
Oliver Morley leaves the PPF in December to join Money and Pensions Service
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NewsGerman actuaries propose maximum interest rate increase on pension products
The increase, of 1% from 2025 from 0.25% currently, is the fist increase in three decades
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NewsAP7’s coal blacklist grows again, while ban on other stocks expires
Swedish pensions default fund describes blacklisting as engagement tool
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NewsISSB: Scope 3 emissions emerge as key challenge
ISSB’s Transition Implementation Resource Group will aim to understand what challenges constituents are facing and attempt to avoid diversity in practice
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NewsInvestor coalition calls for phase out of unequal voting rights
It made recommendations to phase out dual-class structures tailored at different financial market participants
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NewsGerman doctors’ scheme spots investment opportunities in energy infrastructure
‘We currently have more investment opportunities than available cash,’ says ÄVWL CEO Christian Mosel
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NewsThales Pension Scheme secures £2.7bn buy-in with Rothesay
The transaction secures benefits of over 16,000 members – 10,512 pensioners and dependants as well as 5,915 deferred members
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NewsChurch of England Pensions Board outlines strategic plan to reach climate transition goals
CEPB’s climate action plan focuses on key systemic risks like demand for fossil fuels, corporate climate lobbying, climate finance in emerging markets, says Adam Matthews
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NewsNBIM to lead class action for first time, joining AP7 against SVB
AP7 reveals it is also leading class action in US against failed Signature Bank
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NewsDutch pension fund PMT sells most fossil fuel holdings
Metals industry scheme remains invested in nine oil and gas companies with ‘sufficiently convincing plans’ for the energy transition, including Shell
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NewsGerman regulator updates governance requirements for pension plans
Three new circulars concern members of management and supervisory boards
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NewsDe-risking gains in importance for pension schemes approaching endgame
56% of survey respondents identify de-risking as investment priority
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NewsCOP28: ‘Proof of concept’ launched for public net zero data portal
Also at COP28 a group focused on aligning global policy with net zero emission goals has been launched
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NewsRailpen framework to help investors assess their capacity to invest in illiquids
The framework focuses on the illiquidity aspect of private markets, rather than the potential for additional return or diversification
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NewsEU migration has positive impact on Swiss first pillar pension system
Positive outlook for the first pillar’s funds AHV, IV and EO stretches over a period up to 2070
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NewsIceland’s Gildi draws ire as pensions lobby works on loan relief for volcano town
Amid direct action from aggrieved Grindavik residents, pensions association explores following example of banking sector’s moratorium on interest and repayments granted to evacuated people
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NewsNet zero asset owners get direction on policy advocacy, transition plans
‘Impossible’ for asset owners to meet net zero goals without an enabling policy environment
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NewsISSB chair Emmanuel Faber re-appointed for second term
Early reappointment ’reflects appreciation for ISSB delivering requirements designed to create a truly global baseline of sustainability disclosures’
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NewsAP3 links with Kuwait’s Wafra to launch $1bn private equity platform
Swedish national pensions buffer fund says new co-investment collaboration will become ‘agile source of capital’
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NewsDutch central bank brings investments in line with Paris Agreement
DNB has been urging pension funds to better account for climate risk in their investment policies for years, and is now putting its money where its mouth is
