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June, 2019
Walking the ESG talk
Stephen Hearle, Director, Global Institutional Business, Nordea Asset Management. Stephen Hearle from Nordea Asset Management pinpoints five questions to ask before choosing your ESG partner There is no question that over the last few years ESG has moved from niche to the mainstream. This has recently led to a proliferation of options and solutions ...
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June, 2019
PLSA launches new ESG and stewardship guide
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has published a new guide, ESG and Stewardship: A practical guide to trustee duties, to help pension fund trustees comply with new requirements on ESG, climate change and stewardship, coming into force on 1st October 2019. The PLSA said that the guide tackles the new requirements in a practical manner, ...
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June, 2019
Private equity secondaries: capitalising on an ever-expanding opportunity
Matt Jones, Partner, Co-head of Private Equity Secondaries, Pantheon. Andy Bush, Vice President, Relationship Manager, Pantheon. Pantheon’s Matt Jones and Andy Bush discuss the surging growth of the Private Equity Secondary Market and the implications for investors A secondary allocation has long been employed by investors as a means to mitigate ...
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June, 2019
Schroders acquires European real estate boutique
UK fund manager Schroders has bought a German real estate manager, Blue Asset Management, which manages €1.2 billion of assets for its clients across, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Blue Asset Management was founded in 2009 and is based in Munich. It holds both commercial and residential real estate assets. The acquisition is a sign of Schroders’ ...
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June, 2019
ESG matters – getting engaged
Paul Myles, Director – Institutional Business, BMO Global Asset Management. Paul Myles of BMO Global Asset Management uses the example of ocean plastics to outline how using engagement to address underlying ESG-related issues can help drive investment performance Under new investment regulations, which came into law in January 2019, pension schemes ...
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June, 2019
EMS claims £6.5 million exit credit from Northamptonshire
The Northamptonshire County Council Pension Fund is being sued for £6.5 million by Enterprise Managed Services (EMS), which was dropped from a £7 million a year contract by Northampton Borough Council (NBC) and Daventry District Council (DDC) in 2018. EMS, now part of the Amey Group, claims it should get around £6.5 million as an exit credit from the ...
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June, 2019
Trump’s Mexico tariffs could bring rate cut
President Trump’s latest tariffs on Mexico may get him the interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve that he wants, according to asset manager Schroders. Following Trump tweeting that he wanted to put tariff’s on Mexico, the bond market has now priced in nearly three rate cuts of a quarter point each this year from the Fed. Schroders chief economist, ...
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June, 2019
Border to Coast hires managers for £4.5 billion global equity fund
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has announced the appointment of four external managers for a global equity fund expected to reach over £4.5 billion when launched later this year. The four managers are Harris Associates, Investec Asset Management, Lindsell Train and Loomis Sayles & Company. Border to Coast looked at proposals from over 90 asset ...
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June, 2019
Pension scams group issues code of good practice
The Pension Scams Industry Group (PSIG), a voluntary body set up to help trustees, providers and administrators fight against pension scams, has issued version 2.1 of its code of good practice. PSIG chair, Margaret Snowdon, commented: “We’ve been making good progress in our fight against pension scams, with many millions of pounds saved from the ...
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June, 2019
Have investors missed the boat in credit?
Jeff Boswell, Head of Developed Market Credit, Investec Asset Management. Garland Hansmann, Portfolio Manager, Investec Asset Management. Jeff Boswell and Garland Hansmann of Investec Asset Management survey the pros and cons of the credit market and look at how investors can adapt to access its full risk-adjusted returns potential After last ...
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