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Active management drives Industriens Pension’s 12% 2019 return
Listed equities, government and mortgage bonds beat benchmark for Danish pension fund
WTW: German pension investors need to expand their ‘comfort zone’
Consultancy sees room and need for bigger allocations to alternatives
LGPS pool puts investment system fix at heart of new climate policy
Brunel lays down challenge for asset managers, service providers, companies
PGGM director joins UK’s NEST investment committee
NEST reaches £10bn in assets under management
TKP to outsource investment admin for DC plans to Ohpen
Admin had to be outsourced as investments in DC plans with a drawdown pension were becoming complex
Institutional investors’ delegation to visit tailings dam communities
Investors hearing ‘radically divergent’ accounts of disasters and follow-up action
KLP sues Danske Bank after scandal deals €12m blow to shareholding
Norwegian fund’s RI chief explains reasons for joining one of the class actions
PKA combines ‘important values’ with new €44m microfinance investment
Fund, run by Maj Invest, targets DKK1.3bn in investor capital over next 12 months
Charity Commission seeks industry views on RI
Increasing demand for transparency from the charity sector
Accounting roundup: EFRAG discussion paper gets mixed response
Plus: IASB agenda plans, EU adopts IASB’s amendments
Danes not properly told about pension risks, watchdog finds
FSA report does not address more recent steps taken by the sector
Singapore Exchange snaps up Scientific Beta
Singapore Holding of EDHEC endowment fund to retain 7% stake
New initiative seeks investors’ help to tackle antimicrobial resistance
UK department of health and social care and others launch ‘Investor Year of Action on AMR’
Japan’s GPIF focuses on social bonds
GPIF joins forces with Islamic Development Bank to target green and sustainable sukuk
Large Dutch schemes perform well despite disappointing Q4
2020 to be a ’difficult year’ due to current financial markets and new regulation
People moves: Sampension picks property/infra head; USS names new chair
Sampension, The Linde Group, USS, bfinance, CAPZA, Willis Towers Watson, APG, MSD, KPS, TOBAM, RAM AI, Kempen, S&V, Octopus, Neuberger Berman
£8.6bn London CIV names deputy CIO after head of fixed income exit
Rob Hall promoted to deputy CIO role effective this week
Growing net zero asset owner group kicks off company engagement
Alliance now has 18 members after Church of England and Generali join
Icelandic pension funds see “major turnaround” with 11% 2019 return
Funds post high returns at home and abroad, with foreign equities strongest
Former president of French institutional investor association dies
Jean Eyraud devoted his energy to defending the interests of France’s institutional investors
Domestic equities lead as Switzerland’s Publica posts 9% return
Swiss equities gained more than 30%
Netherlands roundup: Ford transfers pensions to Aegon
Plus: Dutch GP scheme to reassess indexation target
USS offers DC members access to private markets
Move shows that funds like USS can provide ‘access for members to these investments at reasonable cost’
Sampension’s bond insourcing move helps fund dodge reputation pitfall
Danish pension fund shines in local media as only one clean of “problem country” debt
UK standards body unveils first sustainable finance output
Standardisation programme tackles problem of lack of agreed definitions, understanding in sustainable finance
