All Equities articles – Page 26
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Asset Class Reports
Intangible assets – Dealing with intangibles
The global growth of companies with relatively limited physical assets presents challenges for investors
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News
Mandate roundup: Dutch, Swiss investors tender mandates via IPE Quest
Plus: Italian journalists seek infrastructure manager
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News
KLP holds fire on Aramco as RI team completes Saudi Arabia probe
Norwegian scheme would be “an investor with expectations” in Gulf state
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Special Report
Investment Research: The small-cap research squeeze
MiFID II is affecting smaller company research in unexcepted ways
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Features
Briefing: Alternatives to large-cap buyouts
Large buyout funds are a staple ingredient in many institutional pension funds’ private-equity portfolios. Focusing on more diversified private-market strategies could be a better way to achieve return objectives
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News
New Amundi fund targets indirect beneficiaries of ‘new silk roads’
Projects gaining directly from China’s Belt and Road Initiative may not be best investments, says Amundi
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Special Report
ETFs for ESG: Corporate governance for passive investors in Japanese equities
The Japanese economy has been experiencing significant and positive change since the election of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2012. After a sustained period of economic stagnation, Japan’s return to growth is being fuelled by Abe’s transformative economic policies.
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News
LGPS Central launches £2bn multi-factor equity climate fund
The initial investment comes from two of the nine local authority pension funds in the asset pooling vehicle
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News
Scope of Norway’s SWF oil divestment shrinks still further
Finance ministry gives go-ahead for gradual NOK54bn equities sell-off
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News
AP2 puts China asset managers under close human rights scrutiny
Swedish pension fund claims pioneer status with first report on its work on human rights
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Asset Class Reports
Small & mid-cap equities: Public or private markets?
Public markets are shrinking while private markets are attracting huge amounts of capital. But it is still not clear which is the better bet
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Asset Class Reports
The small-cap conundrum
Academic studies have cast doubt on the existence of a premium for investing in small-cap stocks
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Asset Class Reports
ESG awareness grows
Smaller companies are realising they must keep up with ESG and impact-investing standards to remain successful
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News
UK roundup: LGPS pool names managers for £2bn sterling credit fund
Plus: Master trust The People’s Pension is allocating to an ‘adaptive cap’ equity index managed by SSGA
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News
LGPS asset pool tenders sustainable equities mandate for up to £1.5bn
Brunel Pension Partnership says it will be looking for managers whose approach ‘embraces the vision of sustainable economic growth’
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News
UK schemes preparing for endgame with equity cuts and liability hedges
Aon survey shows pension funds are stepping up de-risking activity and allocating more to alternative asset classes
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News
Varma ploughs €200m into ESG-themed ETF
Former senior AP2 and AP3 staff to sit on a five-person board to decide on exclusions for the Legal & General fund
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News
PFA sheds Chinese coal stocks in latest climate purge
Danish fund divests seven companies and puts another seven under observation as part of its semi-annual portfolio climate review
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News
Netherlands roundup: KAS Bank sacks BlackRock from €100m mandate
Plus: The €700m Equens pension fund has opted to transfer to Centraal Beheer, insurance company Achmea’s consolidator subsidiary