All IPE articles in July 2024 (online)
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NewsPGGM to hire 30 women to improve gender balance
The pledge is part of the pension asset manager signing the CFA Institute’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Code
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NewsL&G sets up private markets fund for defined contribution members
The fund seeks to capture the illiquidity premium in asset classes including private equity, real estate, private credit and infrastructure
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NewsAt retirement DC phase lagging on sustainability, says Barnett Waddingham
Consultancy also reports big gap in 2023 returns between worst and best DC providers, led primarily by strategic asset allocation
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NewsBlackRock to acquire private markets data provider Preqin
Deal marks strategic expansion of asset manager’s Aladdin tech business into fast-growing private markets data segment
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NewsATP tells portfolio firms it prefers fewer key CSRD data points
Danish pensions giant sends letter to investee companies giving guidance on the new EU green reporting it expects from them
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NewsGreater Manchester Pension Fund adopts pass-through voting
GMPF can now uniformly apply its voting policy across both segregated and pooled funds, allowing it to directly influence decisions on critical issues
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NewsNSK and Menzies funds drive £569m in additional buy-ins for UK market
The deal for Menzies’ DB scheme included dovetailing with a secondary market sale of an illiquid asset
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NewsSkandia urges independent review of Swedish ITP system
The insurer would like to see the review look into the transparency in the system, particularly on how the pension insurance products are procured
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NewsIntesa Sanpaolo DB fund picks managers for equities, bonds
Several mandates were re-tendered, with Eurizon Capital picked for bonds, Schroders for global equity, Azimut for European equity, and Pictet for US equity.
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NewsATP and PFA draw IPO lessons as they settle OW Bunker case
Danish pensions heavyweights among €86.5m group settlement; ATP says cost of continuing through courts ‘would run into millions’
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NewsUK’s Pensions Management Institute launches Global Innovation Centre
The move follows a strategic review of the future needs of PMI’s members, employers, and strategic partners
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NewsSwiss scheme expands credit investment to banks and infrastructure companies
LUPK’s funding ratio rose by 3.8 percentage points year-on-year, from 105.9% in 2022 to 109.7% in 2023
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NewsVelliv invests €94m in Nuveen private equity impact fund
Asset manager raises around $200m for its second private equity climate inclusion strategy
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NewsKENFO overshoots target return as it continues illiquids expansion
The pension posted a return of 11.1% in 2023, the highest annual return to date, compared with -12.2% in 2022, and against a target return of 4.2%
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NewsTotalEnergies UK Pension Plan completes £1.2bn buy-in with PIC
transaction had unique structuring requirements and a complex benefit structure
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NewsPeople news: BNY appoints global head of BNY Investments & Wealth
Plus: Veritas appoints new CIO; SBTI’s CEO steps down
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NewsSchroders Capital pilots tokenisation for insurance-linked securities
The project successfully enabled reinsurance contracts to be tokenised and traded on a public blockchain platform
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NewsNew nature investment coalition inspired by pension-backed initiative
The Nature Investment Coalition (NIC) aims to replicate the success of a climate counterpart that drew €120bn in commitments from pension funds
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NewsAP2 and German think tank launch deforestation due-diligence guide
Swedish pensions buffer fund and Climate & Company say new tool is ready for financial institutions to use
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NewsImpact-investing RFPs difficult to implement, says M&G
According to the asset manager, the definitions of impact given by pension funds in requests for proposal are often too broadly formulated to build portfolios
