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ERAFP: France’s public sector pension scheme and its key priorities
Susanna Rust talks to Catherine Vialonga, CIO of ERAFP, France’s mandatory additional pension scheme for civil servants, and CEO Régis Pelissier about the fund’s priorities and tactical asset allocation adjustments
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Muzinich’s Tatjana Greil Castro on credit fundamentals
In one of the meeting rooms of the London office of Muzinich & Co are displayed a series of bond certificates from the past.
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Biodiversity, the next responsible investment frontier
European pension funds are ramping up their efforts to consider the impact of their portfolios on the loss of biodiversity related to climate change
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AI’s future in investment management is evolutionary
The explosion of ChatGPT-style large language models (LLMs) has ignited a heated debate over the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in investment management and its role in institutional investor portfolios. However, amid the noise, a groundbreaking application of AI has quietly arisen, which has the potential to revolutionise the industry.
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Systematic trading for long-term investors
Man Group, the investment management company listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1994, was founded in the City of London in 1783 by James Man as a sugar brokerage firm.
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Refining how factors impact investment returns
Investment management has undergone a significant transformation with the introduction of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. It emphasises a more holistic approach that goes beyond financial returns to assess long-term sustainability.
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Pension funds hold on to their equities
European pension funds are looking to maintain their equity allocations, despite an uncertain outlook for global growth
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Alpha at the core: CERN pension fund's investment approach
Elena Manola-Bonthond, CIO of the CERN Pension Fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s approach to investing in private markets and the years ahead
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Grégoire Haenni: How Switzerland’s CPEG is building resilience
Grégoire Haenni, CIO of CPEG, the public pension fund for the Swiss canton of Geneva, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about his views about markets and the fund’s sustainability journey
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Barings: A bond investor for changing times
Martin Horne is the new global head of public assets at Barings bond investor, but he is a bond guy through and through.
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Investors poised to raise fixed-income allocations
European institutions discuss their strategies for fixed income, which is finally attracting capital as central banks reach the end of the hiking cycle
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Exit interview: Oliver Morley, Pension Protection Fund
Oliver Morley leaves the PPF in December to join Money and Pensions Service
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ABP is too big to be an active investor, says president
The Netherlands’ largest pension fund is switching from an all-active investment strategy to index investing
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London’s new Lord Mayor sets out his stall for the City as a centre for global problem solving
The newly elected Lord Mayor of the City of London Michael Mainelli is keen to position the City as a global problem solving hub and not just a financial services centre
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Pension funds ride out the macro uncertainty
European institutions reflect on their priorities for 2024, as the fundamental questions about inflation and the impact of higher interest rates remain unanswered
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Fiera Capital: Montreal’s succession story
If Fiera Capital were a retail store it might need a big shop window. It is perhaps better known in the institutional world outside Canada for strategies like real assets but Fiera is a full-service asset manager that is also a big deal in its home town of Montreal.
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Benefits of travelling together in pensions: Wyn Francis’s journey from BT to Brightwell
Wyn Francis, CIO of Brightwell, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the new phase of development for the organisation
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The great desyncronisation age in global financial markets
Investors are witnesses to the end of an era of synchronised global growth, when China could be counted on for outsized expansion that provided a broad cross-border lift for economies, industries and asset classes.
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Opening private markets to smaller investors
“One of the biggest differentiators for us in comparison to other private markets businesses is our focus on the use of technology within the business,” says Hartley Rogers, chair of Hamilton Lane.
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Pricing the decline of democracy for investors
History does not progress in a linear way. Science, democracy, technology, arts, the economy and any other type of evolutive process advance and recede in chaotic movements, even though they ineluctably move towards progress. Those recessions and pull-backs often go unnoticed at first, at least to the casual observer. And yet, they end up profoundly sanctioned by all stakeholders including the economy, financial markets and investors.