All articles by Nina Röhrbein – Page 29
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News
Performance fees lift Allianz GI's growth
GLOBAL - A fivefold increase in performance fees helped to boost Allianz Global Investors’ revenue growth by 28% in 2009, and raise its total revenue to €3.599bn last year.
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Country Report
Belgium: Keeping it safe and simple
Belgium’s pension funds are erring on the side of caution as they begin the process of re-examining their asset allocation strategies following the downturn. Nina Roehrbein reports
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Special Report
Lukewarm on weather derivatives
Nina Röhrbein reports on whether investors are turning to weather derivatives as a means of assuaging climate change concerns
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News
Investors continue to finance climate-friendly projects
[14:00 CET 24-02] GLOBAL – Investment in World Bank green bonds have now surpassed the $1bn (€736m) mark, reflecting a growing interest by investors in climate change adaptation and mitigation projects.
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News
Excluding climate change breaches fiduciary care - Natixis
[14:45 CET 19-02] GLOBAL - The integration of climate change into portfolio management remains a difficult task but not doing so is a failure of fiduciary care by asset managers, an institutional investor has claimed.
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Asia’s sustainability opportunities are underestimated
[16:00 CET 16-02] GLOBAL - Investors are significantly underestimating the potential gains to be had from Asian sustainability, according to a study by Swiss international bank Vontobel.
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Pressure mounts on corporate responsibility reporting
[16:45 CET 15-02] GLOBAL - A coalition of global investors from 13 countries with over $2.1trn (€1.5trn) of assets is calling for better corporate reporting on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) activities.
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Country Report
Ireland: On the road to diversity
The pummelling suffered by Irish pension funds in the recent financial crisis is encouraging them to review their investment risk strategies, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
Ireland: Subtle changes needed
The managed fund sector recovered some of its disastrous 2008 losses over the course of last year. Nina Röhrbein assesses the state of play
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News
Be aware of ETF ownership rights, says ICGN
[16:50 CET 01-02] GLOBAL - Investors need to be aware that they cannot exercise their ownership rights with certain types of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).
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Interviews
YouTube not yet the communication star
On The Record How do you communicate with members?
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Special Report
Going green in emerging markets
Green is gaining in currency with investors. ATP has just announced a €1bn investment to a fund focused on emerging markets and climate change, while the World Bank’s green bond issues have been snapped up. Nina Röhrbein reports
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News
SAM to offer 'sustainable' fees
[15:15 CET 27-01] GLOBAL - A new fee structure for institutional asset owners and their managers has been launched by Swiss-based Sustainable Asset Management, in a bid to align the long-term interests of the two parties.
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NewsInvestors continue to urge climate change action
[15:30 CET 19-01] GLOBAL - New mechanisms need to be found to develop more climate change-related investments, according to Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC.
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Features
Full speed ahead
A €2.6bn pension fund will look after CERN’s scientists long after they have finished their minute inspection of the universe using the Large Hadron Collider. Nina Röhrbein visited Christian Cuénoud, the fund’s retiring administrator
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Features
Pension funds on 2010
Pension fund respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey on the outlook for 2010 had different views on how the new year will shape up.
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Special Report
Governance push in Japan
The Japan Engagement Consortium aims to improve Japanese corporate governance standards at the same time as companies realise they must improve to attract investors, reports Nina Röhrbein
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News
Not a good time for interest rate matching - IPE survey
[15:00 CET 23-12] EUROPE - Now is not a good time to use assets to match interest rate risk in a liability-driven investments (LDI) strategy. Bond yields are too low and assets are better employed seeking yield elsewhere, according to 61.5% of pension funds responding to an IPE survey.
