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Italian pension funds group commits €168m to infrastructure
The process to select an asset manager, conducted with the support of Prometeia Advisor Sim, will end in November
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Italian roundup: Minibond, Pioneer, BNP Paribas, Prometeia, PensPlan, Fondo Pegaso, Groupama
Pioneer launches €200m Italian minibond fund, offering debt with minimum rating of B-
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Italy's recovery: Endless opportunities for pension funds
Italian pension funds are primed to participate in Italy’s post-COVID-19 recovery
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Italy: The greening of the pension industry
Italian pension funds are developing their approaches to sustainable investing, with increasing focus on impact and engagement
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Private markets: Seeking post-COVID alternatives
Italian pension funds continue to invest in private markets ahead of a potentially promising post-Covid recovery phase
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Italian industry-wide DC funds team up for private debt investment
Four funds have committed €195m in total
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Private equity: Visions of the future
Is Project Iris, a joint effort by Italian pension funds to invest in alternatives, a sign of things to come?
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Italian funds appoint Neuberger Berman to run joint private equity mandate
Five industry-wide defined contribution schemes have joined forces to invest €216m in private equity
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ESG picks up steam
Italian pension funds have been late starters in embracing ESG principles but they are catching up fast
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Italy: Struggles of the pension sector
Italian industry-wide pension funds fail to attract new members, with potentially serious long-term consequences
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The European insurance challenge
European insurers may turn to a wider range of asset management strategies as they face up to difficult market conditions
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Telemaco: A colourful approach
The telecom pension fund has increased diversification significantly, considering alternatives and ESG
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Mandate roundup: Foncer, Epap, Enpapi, PKH, Nottinghamshire
Italian pension funds have issued searches for balanced and fixed income managers
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Financing the real economy
The credit funds industry is evolving fast to meet the needs of the world’s SMEs. Claudio Bocci and Gianmatteo Guidetti provide a survey of the products on offer
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Italian occupational fund subscribers up 0.6%
ITALY – New subscribers to Italian occupational pension funds have risen a “mere” 0.6% in 2003, according to research consultancy Prometeia.
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Consultants: Talking heads
IPE asks pension consultants and fiduciary managers for their thoughts on regulation of investment advice for institutions
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How we run our money: Laborfonds
Ivonne Forno (pictured), the CEO of Laborfonds, the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol regional pension fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo shortly after the fund’s 20th birthday
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BNP Paribas launches Italian minibond fund
Asset manager seeking pension funds, banking foundations and other institutional investors for new closed-end fund
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Italy: Your country needs you
Pension fund assets are in demand for infrastructure and SME lending as bank credit dries up. Carlo Svaluto Moreolo finds mixed views about whether funds will take up this opportunity
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Italy’s Cometa tenders entire E2bn portfolio
ITALY - The Cometa engineering workers’ pension fund, which is expected to be worth two billion euros by the end of 2004, has tendered its entire portfolio.