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InterviewsImpax rides the sustainability wave
One investment analyst sums up Impax Asset Management as a “pure sustainability play”. And certainly, according to founder and CEO Ian Simm, the core thesis of Impax is to “make the most of the investment opportunities offered by the transition to a more sustainable economy”. These are “on the scale of the Industrial Revolution”, Simm believes.
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Pension funds on the record: The benefits of a themed portfolio
European pension funds are increasingly organising portfolios according to ‘themes’. Here are two examples of thematic investing in equities
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AP4: A pension fund investing 40 years into the future
Niklas Ekvall (pictured), CEO of Fjärde AP-fonden (AP4), one of the Swedish buffer funds, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about building a robust and sustainable long-term portfolio
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Dutch medical specialists: focus on healthy pensions
Marcel Roberts (right), CIO, and Ravien Sewtahal, investment manager of SPMS, the Dutch pension fund for medical specialists, talk to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about risk management and sustainability
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Pension funds on the record: inspiring confidence in inflationary times
Rising inflation affects portfolio as much as morale, which is why many pension schemes are making extra efforts to advise their members
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Newton’s Euan Munro: Seeking the best of both worlds
Euan Munro has built a formidable reputation in asset management, developing a major multi-asset absolute return strategy at Standard Life Asset Management in the 2000s. But the fortunes of his once mighty Global Absolute Return Strategy (GARS), now managed by Abrdn, have wavered as multi-asset strategies have fallen out of favour.
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Mirova’s Philippe Zaouati: realistically optimistic
Asset management CEOs tend to be a clever bunch, but there cannot be many who are familiar with the work of Antonio Gramsci, the 20th century Italian socialist philosopher.
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Pension funds on the record: Reflections on a sobering year
Pension fund managers reflect on an extremely challenging year for markets and look to the future, considering questions such as what is risk-free, how to secure inflation-linked assets, the role of central banks and the risk of liquidity crises
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Delivering pensions ‘like a Bosch’: Bosch pensionsfonds
Dirk Jargstorff (pictured right), CEO of the pioneering Bosch Pensionsfonds, and Christian Zeidler, CFO, talk to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo on the fund’s 20-year anniversary
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Ircantec: Aiming for core sustainability
Myriam Métais andCécilia Lyet (pictured) of France’s Caisse des Dépôts talk to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about managing the reserves of Ircantec, the supplementary scheme for public sector employees
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NEST Sammelstiftung: A history of sustainable investing
Ulla Enne (pictured), head of responsible investing and investment operations at Switzerland’s NEST Sammelstiftung, talks to Luigi Serenelli about the pension fund’s central focus on sustainability
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Pension funds on the record: Emerging market debt
At a time of high volatility in interest rates, currencies and GDP, two seasoned investors in emerging market debt discuss their approaches
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Interview: Martin Præstegaard, ATP CEO
On the first day of September, Martin Præstegaard – who was installed little more than a month before as CEO of ATP – told journalists in the pension fund’s Copenhagen offices that ATP had made its biggest six-month investment loss ever.
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Railpen: Next stop, sustainable long-term returns
Richard Williams (pictured), CIO of Railpen, the manager of the UK’s rail transport pension schemes, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the institution’s investment strategy, governance model and commitment to sustainability
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Strategically speaking interview: Italian, global and poised for growth
In asset management, three years can be a short or a long time, depending on many factors, including market conditions. To some asset management executives, the second half of the 2010s perhaps felt like an endless slog, due to the intense competition for market share and outperformance within the seemingly never-ending bull market. The first two years of the new decade have certainly elapsed more quickly, thanks to the historical significance of the events that have occurred.
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Pension funds on the record: bracing for uncertain times
Investors stay true to their diversification strategies in response to an increasingly complex inflation and global growth outlook. Alternatives are still seen as the best instrument to diversify risk
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Strategically speaking interview: Jose Minaya, Nuveen
Asset managers with a yield-hungry pension investor as a parent nowadays usually have to diversify their footprint into private markets, often by acquisitions in one form or another.
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Italy's Previndai pension fund: On a journey to diversification
Alessandro Ciucci, CFO at Previndai, one of Italy’s largest pension funds, talks to Luigi Serenelli about its diversification strategy built on alternatives
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Exit interview: Christian Boehm
Christian Boehm, who stepped down as CEO of the Austrian Pensionskasse APK at the end of June, wasn’t expecting to retire in a year of seismic changes. He has spent his final months as CEO not only witnessing at first hand how the investment approaches of pension funds are rapidly changing, but also observing the wider effects of the war in Ukraine.
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Pension funds on the record: Are asset managers serious about sustainability?
After a series of cases of alleged greenwashing by asset managers, institutional investors comment on whether the industry is truly committed to sustainable investing
