Passive investing – Page 4
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NewsPublica tenders €2bn in corporate bonds mandates via IPE Quest
Tender is for two passive or enhanced passive corporate bond mandates – one for European and the other for US bonds
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NewsSwedish funds agency to announce winners of first tender end Q1 2024
As the 5 October deadline passes, new premium pension procurement body starts evaluating tenders
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NewsSmart Pension seeds new split voting low carbon fund with £550m
New fund is first using service unveiled by AMX and DWS last year
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FeaturesResearch: The yin and yang of passive and active investing
Amin Rajan and Sebastian Schiele look at the complementary relationship between active and passive investment strategies
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NewsDutch GPs want pension fund to divest from fast food companies
Pensioenfonds Huisartsen cannot implement their demands because of the fund’s passive investment strategy and now considers switching to active
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NewsIlmarinen steps up ETF collaborations, anchoring €2.75bn of BlackRock launch
Finnish pensions insurer makes latest index investment as it shifts passive equities into climate-focused funds
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NewsAPG unaffected by ABP’s switch to passive management
The fund’s asset manager is not planning any ‘radical changes’ to its organisation as a result of the decision
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NewsABP to switch to passive investing
The €470bn Dutch civil service scheme is the last remaining all-active pension investor in the country
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NewsPGB awards €4.5bn ESG mandate to Osmosis IM
The move doubles the London-based asset manager’s assets to $9bn
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NewsPassive and sustainable investing in EMD: hard to combine for small funds
EMD had long been considered the last frontier for passive investors, as the asset class was seen as insufficiently liquid and therefore hard to replicate
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German church schemes opt for passive high-yield strategy, exclude ETFs
The pension funds have switched to indexed products, partnering with Insight Investment and steering away from its active high-yield managers
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SNS Reaal fund ditches EM fossil fuel producers
The move is part of the €4.2bn pension fund switch from mostly passive to fully active management in EM equities
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NewsUkraine war wake-up call for Dutch passive investors, say consultants
The Russian invasion of Ukraine should catalyse the trend towards bespoke ESG indexes, it is thought
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NewsAP7 re-tenders €66bn of passive global equity mandates
Swedish national pension fund says it intends to procure between two and four mandates
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Brunel Pension Partnership moves £3bn of passive funds to PAB
Wiltshire Pension Fund announces pathway towards the goal of net-zero investments by 2050
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APG launches sustainable equity index
The €587bn Dutch pension asset manager has received a first €1bn mandate from Bpf Bouw
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NewsVarma invests €230m in new SSGA climate corporate bond trackers
Finnish pension insurer acts as seed investor in two of State Street’s new climate-tilted index funds
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NewsPenSam keeps Nordea for new €2.16bn climate-tilted equity mandate
Mandate provides exposure to risk premia while still ticking climate boxes, says Danish pension fund CIO
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NewsKåpan steps up sustainability work
Swedish pension fund for government staff raises voice by switching out of index funds
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NewsBlackRock accused of ‘myopic’ fossil fuel investment
Think tank claims world’s largest asset manager has failed to protect investors but BlackRock challenges methodology and findings
