All IPE articles in October 2023 (online) – Page 3
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NewsStandard Life highlights barriers for trustees to deliver endgame strategy
Market volatility was cited as a key concern by trustees to deliver their endgame strategy
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InterviewsLabels proposal about ‘lowering expectations where they were too high’, says PRI’s Fabian
‘Everyone in the sustainable finance industry knows there’s a problem with not being clear enough’: Fabian on updating the PRI’s member expectations
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NewsPRI pushes for ESG clarity axing reporting rules, asking members to pick motivations
UN-backed body plans to overhaul its expectations from members in response to changing responsible investment landscape
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NewsEquities performance knocks Swiss fund market in Q3
Almost all asset classes suffered outflows in the first nine months of the year, says AMAS
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NewsAustrian Pensionskassen returns slow down in Q3
Pension schemes will ‘continue to rely on their diversification strategies to achieve solid long-term results for their beneficiaries’, says association
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NewsEIOPA addresses economic challenges, advocates for stronger financial resilience
Petra Hielkema, EIOPA’s chair, advocated for green investments, endorsing the EU’s commitment to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050
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NewsSweden launches new AP fund review, weighs merging AP6 and AP2
Government queries expense of running so many funds; AP7 included in the review, despite not being a buffer fund
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NewsInvestment associations push Germany on separate infrastructure category
Current rules represent at times a ‘massive restriction’ to alternative investments, says German alternative investments association BAI
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NewsSchroders centralises private debt, credit alternatives strategies in new unit
Newly-formed Private Debt and Credit Alternatives (PDCA) business will initially oversee $30bn in assets under management
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NewsNOW: Pensions increases investment with sustainable objectives to 82%
A total of 23 green, social or sustainable bonds now make up over 15% of NOW: Pensions’ portfolio, up from 13% last year
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NewsSwedes see refund from dropped Russian, East European premium pension funds
Pensions agency announces further SEK247m refund from Barings, East Capital and Nordea funds – deregistered after Ukraine invasion – to first-pillar pension savers
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NewsESG and climate change ‘at the core’ of PPF stewardship strategy
‘The focus on understanding long-term material risks and opportunities has continued unabated,’ says PPF CIO
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NewsUK’s NEST looks to add to illiquid assets
As at 31 March 2023, NEST was managing £29.6bn on behalf of scheme members
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NewsUK pensions regulator to take ‘more assertive’ approach
‘We will be testing the full suite of powers available to us to really change behaviours’ says TPR
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NewsDWP embraces PPF as potential public pensions consolidator candidate
‘From a variety of perspectives there’s clearly an investment model that we already have, expertise and infrastructure,’ says the PPF
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NewsEnergy company set to pay ‘largest ever step-up’ on sustainability-linked bonds
Think tank predicts that Italy’s Enel will miss its targets because of government policy
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NewsAlecta’s assets shrink in Q3 amid higher-for-longer rates view
Sweden’s biggest pension fund sees first-half investment gains eroded in latest reporting period
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AnalysisInvestors look to isolate China from EM equity portfolios, says bfinance
Several of bfinance’s institutional clients are reportedly on the verge of cutting out China from their main emerging market equity exposure
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NewsDB pension funds ‘working against’ government’s productive finance agenda
Defined benefit schemes have now stopped and some even reduced their allocation to illiquid assets, says WTW
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NewsSolution to small pots proliferation is to use pension dashboard infrastructure
A solution to small pots proliferation will require ‘a new piece of data infrastructure’, DWP said
