More ESG news – Page 280
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Norway tenders ethical research mandate
[13:30 CET 24-02] NORWAY – The Ministry of Finance is seeking to establish a framework agreement relating to research of companies included in the investment portfolio of the Government Pension Fund – Global.
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Study to reveal impact of market turmoil on SRI
[13:00 CET 24-02] GLOBAL - Global institutional asset owners and fund managers will be able to indicate what impact the credit crisis has had on their responsible and sustainable investment strategies with the launch today of the RI landscape 2009 survey.
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Pension fund governance ‘should evolve’
[15:00 CET 23-02] NETHERLANDS - Pension fund governance should also evolve as pension funds evolve into full-fledged financial institutions, according to Henri Lepoutre and Dries Nagtegaal of Hewitt Associates and Wijnanda Rutten of Allen & Overy.
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Pension funds must decide on openness - Donner
[14:30 CET 23-02] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch government has dismissed calls for more transparency of pensions fund investments and argued existing governance arrangements are strong enough.
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Hermes to unveil new governance charter
[16:55 CET 20-02] UK – BT pension fund-owned Hermes Equity Ownership Services (EOS) is about to launch its rewritten corporate governance charter – ‘The Hermes Principles’ – later this month, IPE has learnt.
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NewsNAPF updates corporate governance guidelines
[16:06 CET 18-02] UK - The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has updated its Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines urging investors to adopt a "stronger stance" on companies' application of the Combined Code.
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NewsNorway retenders ethical screening contracts
[17:00 CET 13-02] NORWAY – The Ministry of Finance has initiated a search on behalf of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global for two suppliers to perform ethical screening of companies in the funds portfolio.
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NewsDNB to scrutinise schemes’ reporting
[16:30 CET 13-02] NETHERLANDS - Pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) intends to pay extra attention to the reliability of reporting by pension funds, as part of its supervision in 2009.
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NewsAlternatives require daily liquidity risk monitor - KPMG
[13:45 CET 13-02] NETHERLANDS – KPMG is advising Dutch pension should increase the monitoring of their liquidity risk following an increased allocation to alternatives.
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Climate change impacts asset allocation – CDP
[15:45 CET 12-02] GLOBAL – The majority of institutional investors now factor climate change information into their investment decisions and asset allocation, according to research by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
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NewsShareholders vote against Fortis deal
[16:55 CET 11-02] NETHERLANDS – Shareholders of the Belgian-Dutch bancassurer Fortis today voted against the sale of Fortis to the Belgian government and the French bank BNP Paribas.
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Pension funds back private equity move into RI
[15:40 CET 13-02] GLOBAL – The £28bn (€32bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is one of a number of pension funds to support the introduction of guidelines for responsible investment (RI) by private equity firms.
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AP1 updates ownership governance policy
[15:30 CET 10-02] SWEDEN - Första AP-fonden, (AP1), the first Swedish national pension fund, has updated its 'ownership policy' relating to how it uses active ownership to influence corporate governance issues in both Swedish and foreign companies.
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Pearson pension transfers stall at calculation
[14:30 CET 09-02] UK – Hundreds of members of the Pearson Group Pension Trustee Limited are facing yet more delays to requested occupational pensions transfers, even though administrators are understood to have repeatedly indicated members’ transfer values would be calculated and dealt with months ago.
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Nuclear authority tenders for advice
[16:30 CET 06-02] UK – The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is seeking an actuarial and investment consultant and a legal adviser to provide services in relation to all the pension arrangements which comes under its remit.
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Unite agree Ineos deal as sights turn to Selex
[16:50 CET 30-01] UK – Unite the Union has confirmed the pensions dispute with INEOS over planned changes to the defined benefit (DB) pension scheme is at an end after revised proposals, such as the scheme remaining open to new entrants, were accepted by members.
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BNP Paribas and Belgium reach Fortis agreement
[16:45 CET 30-01] BELGIUM/FRANCE – Belgian-Dutch bancassurer Fortis said today BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, and the Belgian state had agreed on revised terms on the transactions concluded in October last year.
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Norway rules out investing in gold mining giant
[16:40 CET 30-01] NORWAY – The ministry of finance has excluded two companies from the investment universe of the NOK 2.090trn (€240bn) Government Pension Fund – Global, over concerns relating to cluster munitions and environmental damage.
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One in four plans up mortality assumptions
[16:30 CET 27-01] UK – More than a quarter of UK pension schemes are planning to switch to a long cohort mortality projection for their mortality assumptions, potentially increasing life expectancy by almost two years, suggests research from Mercer.
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Hermes pushes for pay vote at Siemens and Porsche
[15:45 CET 27-01] UK/GERMANY – Hermes, the fund manager owned by the £39.7bn (€44bn) BT Pension Scheme, is planning to push for a say on supervisory boards' remuneration during the shareholders meetings at Siemens and Porsche.
