All IPE articles in July 2020 (online) – Page 6
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Considerations around consolidation vehicles
Much of the debate around consolidation vehicles thus far has focused on the comparison between the security provided by consolidators and that provided by a traditional insurance company.
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News
PenSam hands €2.6bn equities to Amundi, keeps Nordea for rest [updated]
French asset manager wins Danish pension fund’s climate change index mandate
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News
Amundi pilots new forward-looking ‘temperature ratings’
Ratings translate corporate commitments into global warming trajectory, expressed in degrees Celcius
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Swiss scheme seeks reform to address negative rates, COVID-19 impacts
At the end of May, the funding ratio for Stiftung Auffangeinrichtung BVG stood at 105.85%, down from 108.7% at the end of 2019
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UBS UK pension scheme enters into £1.4bn longevity hedge
DB scheme looking to ‘reduce uncertainties’ as it approaches maturity
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Ireland’s new government freezes state pension rise
The government proposes setting up a Commission on Pensions to examine sustainability issues
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Largest trade union finally agrees to Dutch DC pensions switch
Many union members fear pensions cuts during the so-called transition phase to the new system
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Australian and Canadian pension funds join Dutch SDI platform
Three additional asset owners are to join the platform
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Ilmarinen invests €500m in passive ESG EM equities via Amundi
Finland’s biggest pension insurance firm announces seed investment via ETF it co-developed with Amundi
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Nordea gears up for Norway reform with €395m pension portfolio deal
Nordea says acquisition from Frende Liv positions firm as a main player in ‘own pension account’ market
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Asset owners, managers recommended to develop ‘culture dashboards’
Thinking Ahead Institute says investment industry has further to go to implement cultural change
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Impax bids to guide policymakers in ‘clean energy investment quest’
Specialist asset manager says ‘time is now’ to help policymakers understand how to mobilise private finance
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Merseyside Pension Fund invests in London co-living fund
The fund gives investors the opportunity to invest in the London large-scale purpose-built co-living sector
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Companies behaving badly will be post-crisis losers, say USS, BTPS
Universities’ scheme shifts to UK bonds after US debt soars
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PGGM misses €20bn impact investment target
By the end of 2019, the Dutch asset manager invested €18.3bn in four themes – climate change, food security, water and health
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EC delivers EFRAG EU non-financial reporting standards mandate
Call for candidates to join taskforce to be issued shortly, with progress report due by end of October
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Strathclyde backs new life sciences venture fund
‘This is an equity investment which balances our portfolio in terms of diversification’
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£900m in new UK pension allocations to climate-tilted tracker funds
UBS UK’s DC scheme and Tyne & Wear DB scheme invest in UBS AM, LGIM funds
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German parliament approves basic pension law
Under the new law, the financial support to employer-financed company pension schemes for low-wage earners will be increased
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Peers vote for separate regulatory approach to open DB schemes
Amendment addresses risk of open plans being forced to de-risk prematurely