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NewsIceland’s central bank governor backs greater foreign investment
Move could see €6.5bn shift to foreign managers
- Opinion Pieces
An alternative pensions future
It’s no real news that ageing is changing our society in numerous ways – from simple things like product design (making smart phones for older eyes and fingers to use) to more generationally diverse workplaces.
- Features
Strategically Speaking: Aviva Investors
Insurance-owned asset managers can be difficult to pigeonhole. Some have forged strong specialisms, often in fixed income, but now also in alternatives like property or niche credit. Others have remained a corporate backwater absorbed by group general-account assets.
- Opinion Pieces
Policy underpins action
Politicians in a variety of different places understandably want to harness the capital of institutional investors. Dutch and UK politicians in particular have made no secret of their desire for local pension funds to invest for domestic ends.
- Interviews
Interview: Lars Dijkstra, Van Lanschot Kempen
Lars Dijkstra, Van Lanschot Kempen’s new head of sustainability, explains his new role at the recently combined asset management franchise
- Features
Strategically speaking: Goldman Sachs Asset Management
If you are a pension fund, insurer or sovereign wealth fund and you haven’t heard from Goldman Sachs already, it probably won’t surprise you to learn that they want to talk to you – about a variety of alternative investment opportunities they want to put your way as a potential debt or equity fund investor, co-investor or all three.
- Asset Class Reports
UK Micro Caps: Below the line of abandonment
Kestrel Partners exploits a structural inefficiency in the UK’s micro-cap market
- Special Report
Top 1000 Pension Funds 2021: Powering on ahead
With a gross headline increase in pension assets of over €800bn – or 9.8% – Europe’s pension fund asset pools can be said to have powered through the COVID-19 crisis, riding the market highs to bank a solid recovery.
- News
GSAM plans European fiduciary expansion following NNIP deal
US firm to become a top-10 European institutional manager following €1.6bn acquisition
- Opinion Pieces
Governance must be the embedded solution
Europe now has approaching two decades of experience with the investment outsourcing that is loosely called fiduciary management, or sometimes outsourced CIO (OCIO), to use the US terminology.
- Features
Strategically speaking: Lyxor & Amundi
Lyxor has made a mark over the 20-plus years of its existence, pioneering managed accounts for hedge funds, including the first dedicated institutional managed account platform, that it created for PGGM in 2010.
- News
Wilshire spearheads Europe expansion with key staff hire
US consulting firm sees London as new Europe hub, hires FTSE Russell and Man veteran
- News
BA trustees pull plug on in-house team in £21.5bn outsourcing move
Largest UK pension asset outsourcing deal paves way for further transactions, industry sources say
- Features
Strategically speaking: Hayfin – no hayseed
Europe’s abortive football super league didn’t collapse from want of loan capital this April. It collapsed, instead, because of a catastrophic lack of cultural fit with the ethos of the sport.
- Asset Class Reports
Activist investors: Muscular stewardship
New types of activist investor are attracting support from long-term asset owners, particularly on environmental and social topics
- Opinion Pieces
The rising tide of corporate governance
In the last year, there has been a broad shift in corporate governance focus towards social issues, including human capital management – the ‘S’ of ESG.
- Special Report
Top 500: Beyond the beauty parade
How does post-pandemic normality look for institutional asset managers and their clients when it comes to manager selection and ongoing client communication? IPE has tracked the views of pension funds and others over the last 12 months or so to understand how they have adapted to online manager search, selection and interaction. In the main, the transition has been a smooth one, albeit with mixed views on the efficacy of virtual meetings.
- Analysis
Bridgewater: Fluent in risk, return… and impact
Bridgewater Associates, one of the most prominent macro hedge funds, is reflecting the integration of sustainability in its research process with two senior appointments.
- News
APG and E Fund explore outside investment for China A-shares
Strategy has returned more than 10 percentage points above benchmark annually since inception in 2017
- Special Report
The scaling up challenge
With ample diagnosis that the world is not on track to realise the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals by their target of 2030, and a significant setback in the coronavirus pandemic, what can institutional investors and asset managers do to scale up impact-related capital?
