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InterviewsStrategically Speaking: Ambienta
In the early 1990s, when Nino Tronchetti Provera started his career at McKinsey, the management consultancy, sustainability in business seemed little more than a nice idea. But having graduated from Luiss University in Rome with a thesis on the subject, Tronchetti Provera believed in the disruptive potential of making businesses environmentally sustainable.
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How we run our money: KLP
Aage Schaanning (pictured), chief financial officer at Norway’s Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP), talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s risk framework
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On the Record: Investing in the time of COVID-19
We asked three institutions how they are working to tackle the pandemic, from an investment and organisational perspective
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Strategically Speaking: Insight Investment
Insight Investment’s asset management roots are in the structural shift over the past two decades to closed-book defined benefit (DB) pensions in the UK and elsewhere.
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On the record: Crisis talks
IPE asked three pension funds how they implemented their crisis communication strategies during the COVID-19 emergency
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Interview: Dambisa Moyo on the geopolitics of global debt
When asked a simple question about global debt, economist and author Dambisa Moyo introduces a far more complex discussion about geopolitics.
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How we run our money: comPlan
Roman Denkinger (pictured), head of asset management at comPlan, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about managing the fund’s portfolio during the COVID-19 crisis
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Strategically speaking: Saker Nusseibeh, Federated Hermes
At first sight, the two sides of Federated Hermes seem culturally distinct. Federated is a staid, family-controlled, and Pittsburgh-based money manager with a history of providing services to bank trust departments. Hardly a hotbed of ESG or shareholder engagement, you might think.
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How we run our money: ENPAB
Danilo Pone, CIO of ENPAB, the first-pillar scheme for Italian biologists, talks about the fund’s new proprietary asset allocation model
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On the record: Safety in asset-backed credits
Simon Davy, head of private markets at the UK’s Local Pensions Partnership, discusses the outlook for alternative credit
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Strategically Speaking: Asoka Woehrmann, DWS
DWS has just unveiled a new, simplified global structure. CEO Asoka Woehrmann explains how the reorganisation will allow the firm to focus on its key business lines
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How we run our money: PPF - Defending UK pensions
Barry Kenneth, CIO of the UK’s Pension Protection Fund (PPF), tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about managing the fund’s portfolio during the COVID-19 outbreak
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On the record: APG - A rethink is needed
Thijs Knaap, senior strategist at APG, says the pandemic means that investment strategies need to be reconsidered
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Strategically speaking: Dimensional Fund Advisors
“Implementing the great ideas in finance for clients” is the stated mantra of Dimensional Fund Advisors’ founder and executive chairman David Booth. But at times of market stress and volatility, such as this year and in March in particular, even the most sophisticated and long-term-focused investors can question the validity of great ideas.
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Premier Foods deal: ingredients unusual, but principle replicable
A ‘landmark’ pensions agreement has been struck at the UK food manufacturer
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On the record: Dispatches from the pandemic
IPE asked European pension funds how the COVID-19 outbreak has changed their lives
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How we run our money: Pensioenfonds KBC
Luc Vanbriel, CIO of Pensioenfonds KBC, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo how the Brussels-based fund is coping with the current crisis
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Strategically speaking: GQG Partners
As an employee-owned boutique asset manager, GQG Partners is inherently more resilient than many other investment firms, according to chairman and CIO Rajiv Jain
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On the record: Green bonds
IPE asked two Nordic pension funds how they invest in green bonds and to what extent sustainability is considered part of their fixed-income strategies
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How we run our money: AP2
Lars Lindblom (pictured), global fixed-income manager at the second Swedish buffer fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s evolving green bond investment strategy
