News – Page 352
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NewsNew code of practice aims to raise sole trustee standards
The code outlines how sole trusteeship service providers need to evidence robust governance structures
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ESG roundup: Northern LGPS targets ‘100% Paris alignment’
Plus: More consolidation in ESG data market; Banking group seeks civil society input
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NewsDanish ‘wise men’ rue new complications for pension system
Finance lobby agrees with advisory body and flags costs of frequent changes
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Old British Steel Scheme set for £2bn buyout with PIC
The transaction will secure the pensions of 30,000 former steelworkers and keep them out of the Pension Protection Fund
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PRI kicks off multi-year human rights programme
Move encouraged by observation that UN Guiding Principles ‘a focal point around which policy around the world is converging’
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Alecta becomes first Swedish pension fund to exceed SEK1trn assets
Year-to-date return enters profit zone in Q3 after COVID-linked losses
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Finland’s Veritas says diversification hasn’t paid off this year
Labour-market pension fund reports 3.3% return in Q3, and minus 1.1% so far this year
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Mandate roundup: TV news scheme renews Aon fiduciary contract
Plus: Germany-based insurer seeks investment proposals for US core equities
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NewsPension funds and the EU’s inaugural SURE bonds
Some contributed to a record order book, some did not
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NewsPeople moves: ICI’s new chief; PFZW picks Borgdorff’s successor
ICI, PFZW, Investment Association, EdenTree, AllianceBernstein, bfinance, T. Rowe Price, AP1, SwedSec, VenCap, Mercer, FRC, Tikehau, Robeco, AAE, Earth Capital
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Netherlands keeps crown as world’s best pension system
Consultancy Mercer says COVID-19 will inevitably weaken pensions
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NewsUK regulator delivers superfund guidance for trustees, sponsors
Guidance follows the announcement of an interim regime for superfunds in the summer
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WTW: Alternatives trend to pick up for German pension investors
Pension assets declined significantly for both DAX and MDAX companies at the end of Q1 2020 to €280.4bn from €302.5bn at the end of 2019
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NewsKLP cries foul after Storebrand’s Vestland pension tender win
Storebrand’s first Norwegian municipal pension contract called into question
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ESG is huge opportunity for European managers – report
But asset managers warned ‘you cannot have your cake and eat it’
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Norway’s oil fund council hires US non-profit to probe forced labour
Verité wins two-year contract to investigate SWF holdings possibly using bonded labour
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NewsTweaks to Norway’s SWF ethical code to trigger nearly €1bn disposals
Norges Bank warns ministry to beware of blurring the line between companies and states
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New DB consolidator targets UK’s small schemes
Stoneport bids to serve as ‘wider solution to address inherent structural issue of sub-scale schemes’
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AP3 hunts for new alternatives chief as Bengt Hellström adjusts role
Swedish pensions buffer funds launches search for leader of five-strong team
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UK roundup: Brickmaker scheme completes £340m buy-in
Deal covers more than half of Ibstock Pension Scheme’s liabilities
