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The unpersuadables?
In his latest article on corporate governance in South Korea, Jonathan Pines, Lead Portfolio Manager, Asia ex-Japan Equity, looks at how to solve the ‘Korea discount’ and why copying Japan’s approach won’t necessarily work.
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France is first country to transpose CSRD into national law
The Directive will replace the Non-Financial Reporting Directive, laying out much stricter expectations for companies reporting on environmental and social impacts
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Nordic pension funds to confront Tesla over Swedish labour dispute
Folksam involved in investor initiative over Elon Musk’s US carmaker; PFA says collective bargaining is fundamental in the Nordic region
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Co-op pension fund insures remaining £4bn of liabilities
The transaction secures benefits for almost 50,000 members
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Impact investment: How change theory can boost key messages
Simply aligning an investment with one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) does not always convince individuals about the impact of an investment. Communicating about change can help.
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Towards a new set of fiscal rules in Europe: an investor view
In the current high-inflation regime, the use of fiscal space must: (1) be rule-based; and (2) preserve the possibility of a cooperative game between monetary and budgetary policies. This use of fiscal space should also help manage investors’ expectations, in order to minimise the risk of ‘sunspot equilibria’, where investors’ beliefs cause prices to diverge from fundamentals.
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European trade associations slam active account requirement
Further efforts should focus on streamlining the supervisory framework for EU central counterparties across member states
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Will social partners carve a new role for themselves in pensions?
Social partnership can mean different things in many countries, or very little at all in others. The concept resonates most in continental Europe, where a tripartite framework of social-market capitalism has taken root since the second world war, in which corporatist decision-making involving government, labour and employer voices is entrenched.
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De Grave to chair PGGM cooperative
NETHERLANDS - The board of the PGGM cooperative has appointed Frank de Grave as its new chairman.
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Dutch Pension Co-operative goes out of business
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch Pension Co-operative – established in 2007 as a joint service provider for pension funds – has gone into liquidation.
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Co-operative could provide pensions solace – Santing
[16:35 CET 09-02] NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds should join forces as co-operatives to prevent being forced further into short-term thinking, according to Gerald Santing, former director of the Netherlands Authority of the Financial Markets (AFM).
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Co-operative fund on diversification streak
[16:28 CEST 05/06] UK - The new £5.5bn career average Co-operative Group Pension Scheme is adjusting its equity/bond split in favour of diversification into currency, commodities and infrastructure.
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Swedish architects survey pensions cooperative
[16:25 CEST 08-05] SWEDEN - Arkitekternas Pensionskassa, the Swedish pension fund for architects, is in talks with four other pensions players with a view to setting up some form of cooperation that would enable them all to cut costs.
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London’s new Lord Mayor sets out his stall for the City as a centre for global problem solving
The newly elected Lord Mayor of the City of London Michael Mainelli is keen to position the City as a global problem solving hub and not just a financial services centre
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Bavarian cooperative fund spreads its wings
[16:30 CEST 03-09] GERMANY – The €270m pension fund of the Bavarian cooperative Pensionskasse der Genossenschaftsorganisation VVaG has said it will expand beyond its Bavarian borders to target companies across the whole of Germany.
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Union looks beyond co-operative sector
GERMANY – Union Investment, the asset manager for German co-operative banks, has reported substantial growth in third-party business, noting that of the 76 mandates won during 2006, 58 came from institutions outside the co-operative bank sector.
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Invesco Real Estate sells Bondorf logistics hub to German retail leader REWE Group
Invesco Real Estate, the US$89bn global real estate investment business of Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), has sold its Bondorf logistics asset in southwest Germany, in Baden-Wuerttemberg to one of the facility’s current tenants, REWE Group, one of the leading food retailers in Germany. The sale was completed in an off-market transaction on behalf of one of Invesco’s flagship European strategies.
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Italy roundup: BCC-CRA pension fund divests from private markets
Plus: Fondo Priamo increases number of members and contributions; Enpaia cuts real estate investments
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ESG roundup: Impact Cubed launches Smart ESG portfolio engine
Plus: IIGCC’s bondholder climate stewardship guidance; Novata sets up private markets’ ESG benchmark collection; Rabobank blacklists Teva Pharmaceuticals
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Global REITs Through Economic Cycles
As inflation continues to run at multi-decade highs around the globe, central banks continue to increase their pace at removing accommodation. The Bank of Canada, The Reserve Bank of Australia and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand have all hiked interest rates by 50bps in the month of June, with even the Swiss National Bank surprising the market with a like-kind increase.