Investor Strategy – Page 7
-
InterviewsBNY Investments: More than the sum of the parts?
The world’s top asset managers are a diverse bunch. From pure-play managers to investment bank-owned firms and those with an asset servicing heritage, the different flavours also reflect the changing nature of the sector.
-
Opinion PiecesEndowment funds stick with alternatives despite headwinds
Disappointing returns in the last fiscal year may force US university endowments to rethink their investment strategies, but could this include moving away from the so-called Yale model that focuses on alternative investments?
-
NewsOxfordshire Pension Fund divests from tobacco, thermal coal and tar sands
The fund is following recommendations put forward by its investment pool manager Brunel Pension Partnership
-
NewsTPT launches £800m liquid alternatives fund
This is TPT Investment Management’s fourth fund in a series of seven planned funds
-
NewsVelliv says impact product revamp ‘in theory makes for better returns’
Danish mutual pension provider redesigns ideas behind VækstPension Aftryk, defines four categories of sustainable investment targets, adds asset classes
-
NewsPFA admits factoring in Scope 3 will dent climate product’s returns
Danish pension provider’s PFA Klima Plus product will begin opting out of stocks with ‘strong connection’ to fossil fuel sector from next April
-
NewsATP chief says Northvolt crisis is ‘wake-up call for Europe’
Pension fund CEO warns that European green transition technology needs public money or China and US will dominate
-
NewsAlecta, AMF plough more money into ailing Swedish battery firm Polarium
Swedish pension fund duo participate in Polarium’s SEK500m convertible preference share issue
-
NewsPensionDanmark invests in quantum computing startup Atom
Labour-market pension fund backs Atom Computing with DKK70m after California-based tech firm pledges to set up European HQ in Denmark
-
NewsATP’s Northvolt exposure highlights problem of illiquids in geared portfolio
Copenhagen professor argues the challenge of a single-company illiquid investment becoming too dominant is much larger in highly-leveraged portfolio, like ATP’s
-
NewsCarmignac launches private markets strategy
Carmignac Private Evergreen marks the firm’s entry into managing private assets
-
NewsBVK, BlackRock, Allianz and others commit €12bn to start-up investments
Germany needs around €30bn annually to finance innovation, says CEO of state-owned investment and development bank KfW
-
NewsAegon UK awards £720m multi-asset credit mandate to asset management arm
The mandate is run as part of the £12bn Aegon Universal Balanced Collection fund, with over 700,000 members
-
NewsCurrent policy initiatives could be detrimental to UK’s productive finance agenda
Any attempt to force providers to invest more heavily in certain asset classes is a direct challenge to trustees’ fiduciary duty, says Pensions Policy Institute
-
NewsLGPS Central sees assets under management grow to £29.9bn
the pool claims to date it has saved partner funds £89m
-
NewsProsecutor probes 10 counts of corruption in Alecta/Heimstaden Bostad case
Swedish pensions giant says it has not yet been part of the prosecutor’s corruption investigation, or received information about it
-
NewsDenmark’s PKA quits Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
Pension fund manager says it decided to focus on IIGCC instead, ‘maximising the impact of our resources and efforts’ on climate and biodiversity
-
NewsATP defends risk-parity strategy via analysis of five investment models
Denmark’s huge statutory pension fund says other standard pension strategies may suit other products - but not ATP’s dual-aim guaranteed product
-
NewsACCESS Pool issues senior secured direct lending mandates
The initial allocations will be around £200m for the European mandate and £150m for the US mandate
-
NewsLGT begins to leverage private equity ESG data initiative
Alternative investing specialist says harnessing portfolio company data is ‘next frontier in integration of ESG in private equity’
