All Equities articles – Page 9
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News
Danish teachers’ pension fund to shed €269m of fossil equities
Lærernes Pension tightens criteria for fossil fuel exclusions, after setting 2050 net-zero goal in June
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Asset allocation – factoring inflation
As inflation keeps beating records, real incomes remain under pressure and the standard approaches to diversification are challenged
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News
Austrian Pensionskassen cut equities, up alternative investments in H1
Austrian Pensionskassen returned -8.78% in the first half of this year, down from 7.63% recorded in 2021
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Luxembourg’s FDC awards MFS €600m active emerging market equity mandate
The strategy’s goal is to outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets index with a controlled tracking error over a full market cycle
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Features
Market overview: German institutional investors manage uncertainty
At mid-year 2022, the volume of Spezialfonds – the German vehicle for professional investors – administered on Universal Investment’s platform was €498bn, a rise of around 5% year on year. On a six-month basis, however, and compared with the end of the booming stock year 2021, asset volumes were down around 3%.
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Special Report
Asia investment: Focus shift brings turmoil to emerging Asia equities
Enthusiasm about Asian equities has cooled on the back of global recession risk, geopolitics and inflation
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Special Report
Special Report – Asia investment
Investors steadily withdrew from emerging Asia equity markets this year, taking nearly $30bn out of the markets in the seven months to the end of July, with six consecutive months of outflows. Tech-oriented Taiwan and South Korea were most affected and India was not unscathed.
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News
AP4 actively seeking companies planning sustainable energy change
Swedish pensions buffer fund explains work with thematic investments focusing on resource-intensive sectors
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Mandate roundup: Swiss scheme tenders CHF2.6bn in equities, bonds
Plus: APK seeks manager for CHF240m small, mid-cap equity mandate; Swiss Investor issues $150m infrastructure brief
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Corporate pension fund tenders mandates over €500m
Plus: Insurer in The Netherlands seeks EM manager for €250m brief
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Dutch pension funds sell €88bn in assets in rebalancing exercise
It is the biggest asset sale by pension funds in the country in any six-month period
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AP7 sticks with emerging markets overweight despite drag in H1
Swedish national pension fund’s product loses 11.6% between January and June – but still beats private-sector options
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Asset Class Reports
Equities – Fundamental managers on the search for quality and growth
At a time of high volatility in markets, bottom-up selection based on equity fundamentals is as relevant as ever, but managers remain challenged to find resilient companies
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Asset Class Reports
Equities – Are Paris-aligned benchmarks a climate gamechanger?
Inflexible annual carbon reduction targets and weak data can lead to flawed decision-making
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Features
Ahead of the curve: Are defensive strategies delivering?
Introducing ‘defensiveness’ to equity portfolios can take many forms. At the most explicit end of the spectrum, we can consider dialling down market exposure using derivative-based equity overlays – whether these are static protection programmes or more complex dynamically managed strategies which could even include some implicit volatility trading. At the more implicit end, promising reduced ‘downside capture’, we find a wide array of defensive long-only equity strategies.
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News
SNS Reaal fund ditches EM fossil fuel producers
The move is part of the €4.2bn pension fund switch from mostly passive to fully active management in EM equities
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News
FTSE Russell launches sustainable investment fixed income indices
The indexes are designed for investors seeking to integrate their sustainable investment strategy into their fixed income investments.
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News
AXA Switzerland issues $200m leveraged loans tender
Plus: Corporate scheme seeks manager for large-cap equity
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News
Cometa picks AXA, Amundi as new asset managers in overhaul worth €11bn
The move follows a review of its investment policy leading to an increase of the risk profile of its three sub-funds while maintaining a prudent approach
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Trustees should treat biodiversity as important as carbon emissions
Biodiversity loss carries the same level of existential threat as carbon emissions