News – Page 144
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NewsChurch of England Pensions Board outlines strategic plan to reach climate transition goals
CEPB’s climate action plan focuses on key systemic risks like demand for fossil fuels, corporate climate lobbying, climate finance in emerging markets, says Adam Matthews
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NewsThales Pension Scheme secures £2.7bn buy-in with Rothesay
The transaction secures benefits of over 16,000 members – 10,512 pensioners and dependants as well as 5,915 deferred members
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NewsGerman doctors’ scheme spots investment opportunities in energy infrastructure
‘We currently have more investment opportunities than available cash,’ says ÄVWL CEO Christian Mosel
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NewsInvestor coalition calls for phase out of unequal voting rights
It made recommendations to phase out dual-class structures tailored at different financial market participants
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NewsISSB: Scope 3 emissions emerge as key challenge
ISSB’s Transition Implementation Resource Group will aim to understand what challenges constituents are facing and attempt to avoid diversity in practice
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NewsAP7’s coal blacklist grows again, while ban on other stocks expires
Swedish pensions default fund describes blacklisting as engagement tool
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NewsGerman actuaries propose maximum interest rate increase on pension products
The increase, of 1% from 2025 from 0.25% currently, is the fist increase in three decades
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NewsBrunel Pension Partnership achieves 75.4% reduction in reserves intensity
The investment pool will work closely with S&P to help with scenario analysis for physical climate risk
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NewsAustrian pensions veteran calls on industry to support PensionsEurope
Johannes Ziegelbecker said SFDR, DORA and FIDA were ‘horizontal legislations’
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NewsInvestors coalition creates platform to strengthen human rights stewardship
Labour Rights Investor Network demand oversight over labour rights by senior management of investee companies
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NewsNet zero alignment commitments shoot up for UK pension funds
The percentage of UK pension funds with net zero commitments increased from 57% last May to 68% this year
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NewsIPE Conference: Asset managers urged to implement diversity policies
More diversity on decision-making panels leads to better investment decision and even outperformance of peers
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NewsSkandia stows $100m in Dutch-backed sustainability blended-finance fund
Swedish pensions firm praises ‘innovative’ structure of SDG Loan Fund for easing flow of institutional money to developing countries
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NewsFrench dashboard to join European pension tracking service
The dashboard in France covers all pillars of the country’s pension system, with 42 pay-as-you go service providers and 100 private pension organisations on board
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NewsIPE Conference: Pension fund CIOs keep faith in alternatives
CERN pension fund and Denmark’s Industriens Pension still see opportunities in private assets
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NewsPeople moves: UK’s NEST appoints public and private markets director
Plus: BT Pension Scheme’s Brightwell names head of business development; Nuveen expands global responsible investment strategy and stewardship teams
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NewsIPE Conference: ‘Investors need to ensure companies play by the rules set by societies’
Investors should support the minimum tax rate deal struck in 2021, for example, said the founding chair of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund
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NewsEBRD starts process to rebuild Ukraine calling on investors
Key priorities for the war-torn country are keeping up economic growth and establishing a defense industry
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NewsATP boasts that its strength allows 3% uprating, but for pensioners only
Manager of Denmark’s statutory scheme admits latest discretionary annual increase is well below the 10% inflation Danes had to cope with in 2022
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NewsLevel of ‘sustainably’ invested in European assets falls below 40%
‘Greenhushing’ on the rise, according to Global Sustainable Investment Alliance
