Markets – Page 99
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Bursting the bubble
Do widespread narratives about speculative bubbles stand up to the evidence?
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NewsAsset management roundup: Gemcorp Group completes management buyout
Plus: HSBC AM combines alternatives capabilities; Waystone creates global compliance offering
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NewsItaly roundup: Pension assets grow despite pandemic impact
Plus: Priamo continues positive performance in Q1
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NewsActive management of public equities bolsters Church’s 10.4% return
The Church’s active fund management approach helped maintain its funding despite last year’s uncertainty that hit some financial markets
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NewsPensions industry group joins forces to study ‘S’ factors
PLSA, Railpen, CIPD and High Pay Centre to start research on what key workforce metrics are of most value to investors
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LGIM divests from four companies due to ‘insufficient action’
It will divest from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, AIG, PPL Corporation and China Mengniu Dairy for unsatisfactory responses to engagement
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NewsNegative factor strategy return for ING scheme
The ING pension fund is sticking with is factor strategy for now but it will start hedging its liabilities in real terms instead of nominal terms
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NewsGerman Pensionskassen call for rule easing to improve outlook – WTW survey
WTW is proposing to grant a higher degree of flexibility to Pensionskassen to relieve the schemes from strict regulatory demands
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NewsSwiss APK kicks off climate strategy with equity indexes
The indexes are intended to help identify potential risks associated with the transition to a low carbon economy
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Italy roundup: Inarcassa carries on with private debt allocation
Plus: Journalists fund to invest in real assets; Institutional investors turn to ESG; Fondo Pegaso’s performance
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PensionsEurope conference: Financial returns of impact assets must stack up
Plus: Fausto Parente, executive director of EIOPA, on IORPs and crossborder pensions
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PensionsEurope conference: PGGM yearns for switch to DC
‘We are in need of a new pension system to avoid investing to a very large extent in very long-dated euro government bonds or swaps to hedge our liabilities’
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NewsUK roundup: Pension funds focus on their ‘endgames’ – Aon study
Plus: Bulk annuity deal for Legal & General; Lincoln Pensions launches PensionSketch
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NewsDACH roundup: Austrian Pensionskassen turn to private markets
Plus: Swisscanto’s first ESG Pensionskassen survey; Pension funds lead allocations in German Spezialfonds
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Pension funds foresee price increase in precious metals – study
Metals such as palladium, copper and nickel are vital for the transition to a sustainable and greener economy
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Impact investing reaches double digit growth in Switzerland – SSF study
The report showed that impact investing still enjoys the highest growth rate of all sustainable investment approaches, at 70%
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Schroders launches private assets unit
‘This unification will promote knowledge sharing and innovation across Schroders private assets businesses’
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Rabobank pension fund continues serial underperformance
The fund will replace its disappointing factor investing strategy with a passive portfolio
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NewsSustainable equity portfolio shows lack of sync with EU taxonomy – study
Using minimum exclusion criteria, together with best in class and value approaches, results in an ESG risk score 19% lower than the market index
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NewsBVK is first German pension fund to join Net-Zero AOA
UK-based Phoenix Group, Legal & General (L&G) group, Rothesay, and insurance group Prudential, also joined the climate alliance
