All articles by Nina Röhrbein – Page 32
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Features
A deeper shade of green
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at pension funds’ integration of ESG.
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Special Report
ESG as a legal obligation?
The UN’s Fiduciary II aims to take ESG integration to the next stage, while a shift in US policy is pushing demographic concerns up the agenda. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Leading fund strategies
Nina Röhrbein outlines leading European pension funds’ investment strategies
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Pensions-to-GDP ratio dropped in 2008
[15:00 CEST 27-08] GLOBAL - The recent turmoil of the financial markets led to a a 12 percentage point (pp) drop in 2008 in the asset-to-GDP ratio in OECD countries.
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Alecta posts 2.2% H1 return
[17:15 CEST 21-08] SWEDEN – Alecta has revealed the value of its investments increased by SEK6.4bn (€630m) in the first half of 2009, following an overall return of 2.2%.
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Italian pension changes lie in wait
[16:35 CEST 11-08] ITALY - While the financial crisis has put a stop to immediate action in the Italian pension fund industry, changes remain on the horizon, say pension officials. And a reform of decree 703/96, relaxing the investment limits for closed and open pension funds may be one of ...
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Investor influence helped climate policy change
[16:25 CEST 11-08] GLOBAL - Increasing investor activity with companies is partly responsible for an improvement in the way companies address climate change, according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) research provider EIRIS.
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Operational issues are essential to pensions - IPE survey
[16:20 CEST 06-08] EUROPE - Operational robustness is integral to investment ability and should not be seen as a separate issue, according to half of all pension funds who responded to an IPE survey on securities lending.
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Financial crisis boosted fiduciary management - Kraneveld
[16:45 CEST 31-07] GLOBAL - The financial crisis has benefited fiduciary management, according to international pensions expert Peter Kraneveld.
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NewsPension funds 'still some way from climate change integration'
[15:30 CEST 31-07] GLOBAL - Pension funds still have a long way to go when it comes to integrating climate change into their investment management strategy, according to Danyelle Guyatt, principal at Mercer's responsible investment team.
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Trying to time the market 'is dangerous', claims author
[15:45 CEST 28-07] GLOBAL - Investors should not play the markets, according to Burton Malkiel, author of the book entitled ‘A random walk down Wall Street’ and Chemical Bank chairman’s professor of economics at Princeton University.
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Investors back forest footprint project
[13:30 CEST 24-07] GLOBAL - Sixteen investors worth $2.2trn (€1.5trn) have thrown their weight behind an initiative calling on businesses to disclose what they describe as their ‘forest footprint’.
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Study suggests alpha potential of sustainability research
[11:00 CEST 16-07] GLOBAL - Investing in sustainability leaders ultimately contributes to superior long-term investment results with improved risk/return profiles, according to the latest research by Swiss-based SAM.
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Crisis highlights importance of risk premium
[15:30 CEST 14-09] NETHERLANDS - The financial crisis has emphasised the need for investors to become more innovative and creative when seeking risk premium, according to Ronald Wuijster, managing director strategic portfolio management at APG Asset Management.
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NewsIreland may be better off with first pillar
[16:55 CEST 10-07] IRELAND - The collapse in asset values of Irish pension funds has strengthened the arguments for pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financed pensions rather than funded ones, according to a senior finance lecturer at Dublin’s Trinity College.
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NewsESG reaching out beyond plain equities
[14:00 CEST 03-07] GLOBAL – While the financial crisis may have slowed the development of traditional financial products, it seems to have encouraged new environmental, social and governance (ESG) products.
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Features
Nerves of steel
Hugh Smart of the British Steel Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein about his approach to dynamic decision making in a portfolio split between liability matching and return generation
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NewsRobeco to move its PE team
[13:00 CEST 03-06] EUROPE - The €410m clean tech and sustainable private equity team at Robeco – the Dutch asset management division of Rabobank Group – is about to move from Rotterdam to Zurich, where it will join its fully-owned investment manager SAM.
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Buyout market set to halve in 2009
[17:00 CEST 02-06] UK – The UK’s pension buyout market is expected to fall to £4bn (€4.6bn) in 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Special Report
ESG alphabet soup
The plethora of ESG programmes and plans has resulted in a confusing alphabet soup. Nina Röhrbein sought industry views
