Exits by private equity (PE) funds from UK companies “bode well” for the defined contribution (DC) pensions market as the government looks to push its growth agenda. According to MCAM Group, the ...
Compass Group Pension Plan has concluded a £1.5bn buy-in transaction with Standard Life, securing the benefits of over 14,000 pensioner members and over 11,000 deferred members. Philip Whittome, chair ...
South Yorkshire Pensions Authority (SYPA) has appointed Northern Trust as a new custodian for the South Yorkshire Pension Fund. The appointment, according to the authority, marks a “significant step” ...
Zusatzversorgungskasse des Baugewerbes (ZVK), the largest of the two sub-funds of Germany’s SOKA-BAU, the pension funds for employees in the construction industry, with approximately €10bn in total ...
BlackRock has withdrawn from the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, prompting fears that more US investors will follow. IPE reported on Thursday that the asset manager was rumoured to be ...
The new year got underway for Denmark’s PenSam with revelations of two large investments the labour-market pension fund had just completed in residential property. The DKK185bn (€24.8bn) institutional ...
PreviAmbiente, Italy’s defined contribution (DC) pension fund for workers in the environmental and hygiene sectors, has swapped asset manager Credit Suisse for UnipolSai to run its ‘Garantito’ ...
German insurers Gothaer and Barmenia have joined forces to create BarmeniaGothaer Asset Management, combining total assets worth around €50bn in total, the duo announced yesterday. Gothaer Asset ...
A sharp rise in bond yields has introduced fresh volatility into the UK financial markets, but a repeat of Gilt crisis of September 2022 that threatened the UK pension industry is unlikely, according ...
IPE covers a good variety of very current and relevant topics. It is good to read the high-level, independent and objective perspectives from pension funds in other European countries; many of them ...
The world’s largest asset manager has said it will not use its stewardship and voting power to achieve specific real-economy decarbonisation goals. In its latest investment stewardship note, BlackRock ...