Pension Fund Strategy – Page 62
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AP1 knocked by 9.4% loss in H1, despite gains on forex, alternatives
Swedish buffer fund is second of big four to report first half financial results – beating the larger AP4
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NEST appoints HarbourVest as part of £1.5bn private equity push
New mandate will play an important role in helping NEST invest around 5% of its portfolio in private equity
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Dutch pharmacist fund ups equity risk in new pension system
Pensioenfonds Openbare Apothekers (SPOA) is the first professional fund to have designed a pension arrangement for the new DC pension system
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Alecta says ‘not unlikely’ markets will fall further in 2022, also hitting RE
Sweden’s largest pension fund suffers 12.7% H1 investment loss, but rising rates slash liabilities
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Sovereign wealth funds switch to private markets in major asset reallocation
SWF investors now own $719bn in private assets, up from $205bn in 2011
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NewsValida introduces inflation-linked bonds with new strategy
Pensionskasse and Vorsorgekasse both increase its equity allocation but made cuts to euro zone government bonds, among other things
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Folksam stows €276m into private credit for North European firms
Swedish pensions and insurance group picks P Capital Partners’ fifth credit fund for fixed income exposure across the group
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NewsBorder to Coast commits final investments in first £5.7bn private markets programme
In total, the programme invested into 61 funds and made three co-investments
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Sampension pushes on with inflation-linked bonds, real assets build up
Danish pension fund uses perceived mispricing, systematic rebalancing tactics to add extra returns
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British Steel picks LGIM for DB scheme, in-house team to transfer
LGIM and Legal & General Retail Investments already manage and insure just under 40% of the scheme’s assets
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AP7 co-files Tesla resolution on workers’ rights
‘Tesla must also have confidence that the company has effective human capital management systems,’ says Nia Impact Capital in proposal
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PGGM, Alecta sign €2.1bn credit risk sharing deal with German bank
The transaction on a portfolio of corporate loans shifts 20% of default risk to the two pension investors
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West Yorkshire Pension Fund to use derivatives ESG risk framework
Framework will be used to build an ESG-aware derivatives overlay as fund gradually builds its portfolio of illiquid, alternative assets
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Dutch physiotherapist scheme goes passive with custom-made ESG benchmark
The fund has swapped €400m in fund investments for a passively managed ESG mandate
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NEST’s pay gaps shrink but CEO says UK trust ‘still on our journey’
Gender pay gap contracts by 1.4 percentage points, ethnicity pay gap 1.3 points smaller between years
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Denmark’s AP Pension mulls ‘potentially significant’ impact of court defeat
High court rules that plaintiffs had to bear unreasonable risks after their pension savings were switched by FSP Pension
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NewsPKA targets lower carbon by investing DKK5bn in ‘resource-efficient’ equity fund
Danish pension fund manager CIO says firm picked Osmosis IM as part of its new approach to ESG policy
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PFZW unveils 50% carbon reduction target for 2030
The Dutch healthcare scheme has also for the first time formulated CO2 reduction targets for its real estate, infrastructure and private equity investments
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ATP, AMF, AP funds and Folksam back Northvolt in $1.1bn financing
Large Nordic pension funds up their investments in Swedish battery maker as it seeks to boost production
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NewsUBS UK scheme extends longevity hedge by £500m
The longevity swap was adapted to cover the scheme’s DB deferred members over age 60 – a market first
