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February, 2021
LGPS Central unveils active EM bond fund
LGPS Central has announced the launch of its £630 million Global Active Emerging Market Bond Fund. The pool, which has £45 billion in aggregate assets, said the fund had attracted four initial investors – Cheshire Pension Fund, Leicestershire Pension Fund, Nottinghamshire Pension Fund and West Midlands Pension Fund. M&G Investments and Amundi will ...
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February, 2021
IA and PLSA form stewardship steering group
The Investment Association and the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) have joined forces to launch a new steering group to examine how stewardship and a focus on long-term investment can be better integrated into the investment process. It is hoped the group – which will be co-chaired by PLSA chair, Richard Butcher, and global head of ...
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February, 2021
Investors pile into equity funds
Inflows to equity funds surged to £2.4 billion in December, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from Calastone, as the mass vaccine breakthrough and prospect of a global economic recovery boosted investor confidence. December was the second-best month on record and took the fourth-quarter total to £4.6 billion, its highest since mid-2015. For the ...
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February, 2021
Realpolitik meets responsible investment
Elizabeth Carey, CFA, Independent Investment Adviser. Elizabeth Carey says investors must be clear-eyed about developments beyond the landscape of western capital markets. Policy makers leading COP26 negotiations must engage pragmatically with countries and regimes where ESG values do not yet measure up to western market aspirations Anyone working ...
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February, 2021
Empowering the future through social investment
Stephen Hearle, Co-Head of Institutional & Wholesale Distribution, Nordea Asset Management UK. So far, ESG investing has been dominated by the environment. But with social issues increasingly prominent, Stephen Hearle of Nordea Asset Management considers whether investors should take a second look at the S in ESG In recent years, institutional ...
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February, 2021
Small caps beat FTSE-All share post-pandemic
UK small-caps outperformed the FTSE All-Share in 2020, according to a review of the Numis Smaller Companies Index (NSCI). The NSCI, which has 696 constituents comprising the bottom 10% of the UK main listed market by value, recovered from a March low-point to achieve an all-time high on 29 December and finished the year with a total return of 1.1%. Over ...
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February, 2021
LGIM unveils tilted climate transition tracker fund
Legal and General Investment Management has launched a passive equity fund that aims to provide exposure to the opportunities arising from the low-carbon energy transition for defined benefit and defined contribution investors. The FTSE TPI Global (ex Fossil Fuels) Equity Index Fund is based on FTSE Russell’s FTSE Global Equity Index Series and excludes ...
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February, 2021
Third of climate funds invested in oil and gas stocks
One third of climate-themed funds being sold in the UK were invested in oil and gas producing companies at their most recent filing date, according to research from think tank Common Wealth, highlighting concerns that investors could be misled over the true nature of sustainable investment products. The research analysed a cohort of over 10,000 mutual ...
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February, 2021
Post-pandemic investment: the risk/return balancing act intensifies
Emma Powell, LAPF Investments. Emma Powell discusses the efforts pension schemes are putting into learning lessons from the events of 2020 and the possibilities offered by investment in different regions and asset classes Against sharply volatile investment markets and a still uncertain economic outlook, pension schemes are unsurprisingly attempting ...
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February, 2021
Merseyside boosts infrastructure investment
Merseyside Pension Fund has committed to a new co-investment vehicle created by French asset manager Mirova to own a share of a Portuguese hydroelectric portfolio. Portuguese electric utility firm EDP announced in December that it sold the portfolio, located in the Douro valley with 1.7GW capacity, to a consortium of Credit Agricole Assurances, French ...
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