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PRI to step up on human rights lobbying
Announcement about policymaker-focused strategy comes as Unilever and Allianz say trade association reviews need standardisation
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Closed Dutch Unilever fund to continue DB arrangement
Univest, the investment vehicle for all global Unilever pension schemes, will hand over two bond mandates to external managers
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Institutional investors submit healthy foods resolution at Unilever
GMPF, Actiam, Candriam among co-filers
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ESG roundup: Unilever shareholder campaign claims transparency win
Plus: Corporates lacking on climate transition plans; Climate-nature ‘integrated transition framework’; Data availability struggles
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Investors must speak up on ESG reporting rules dictated by the EU’s omnibus
Shareholder engagement used to be all about reporting. What gets measured gets managed was the tagline of a whole era of ESG, as investors requested more and more information from companies to help them understand their environmental and social risks.
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Dutch doctors’ fund focuses on Europe in new equity portfolio
The scheme’s new concentrated portfolio only includes 65 companies
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Unilever abandons restructure under pressure from shareholders
RLAM and other major shareholders had opposed “forced divestment of Unilever under a single listing”
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Shareholder engagement succeeding in improving corporate lobbying practices
Investors have met with firms nearly 250,000 times as SEC moves to temper their influence
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Patient investing in India: opportunities and challenges in a rapidly changing economy
Investment returns in the subcontinent have been primarily driven by India since she liberalised her economy in 1991. Investment into one of the earlier Indian indices would have yielded compounded annual returns of approximately 9% in US dollars, from December 1992 to end of March 2025. This compares very favourably with other global and emerging market indices over the same period.
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Pension funds urge Unilever to stick to long-term policy
Company ‘must keep its focus on sustainability’ following rejection of Kraft Heinz takeover bid
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How we run our money: Unilever Dutch pension funds
Rob Kragten, CEO, and Michael Kaal, director of finance and risk at the Unilever Dutch pension funds, tell Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about risk management and collective defined contribution
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People moves: Fiduciary manager poaches Unilever, Blue Sky execs
Altis IM, Univest, Blue Sky Group, Hymans Robertson, Cindu, NN IP, bfinance, De Nationale APF, GAM, AXA IM, Axioma, FundRock
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ABP, Aegon, Phoenix and GPFG named among climate lobbying leaders
Using publicly available information, InfluenceMap scored 30 pension funds and insurers from around the globe
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Dutch company schemes to award additional indexation
Steep rises in funding ratios of the Philips, Unilever and KPN pension funds in 2021 enable them to compensate for missed indexation in previous years
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LGPS Central drives investment strategy forward with new CIO appointment
Investment pool is looking to appoint a global active investment grade credit manager
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Dutch roundup: ABP, Unilever, Pensioenfonds ING, APF
ABP to cut pension contribution from 1 January
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Funding remains strong at Unilever scheme despite 20.5% loss
Pension fund hit by rising interest rates, falling equity markets
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Unilever pension funds buck trend to launch Dutch APF
First company schemes to endeavour to set up new general pension fund
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Al Gore slams financial institutions for ‘wriggling out’ of their climate promises
Generation Investment Management predicts financial industry ‘is about to face a reckoning’