Biden’s focus: Climate, China and Jobs

PGIM's chief economist and head of global macroeco
Continue Reading

Access the full content on Top1000funds.com

Join the global institutional investment platform read by the world's largest asset owners, fund managers and consultants.

New here

Create an account

Complimentary to register. We'll verify your details and grant access to the archive, our newsletters and the Asset Owner Directory (enhanced features coming soon).
Create your Top1000funds.com subscription account
Already a member

Sign in

Already activated your account? Sign in to continue reading and access your saved articles, preferences and member-only content.

Leave a Comment

Are Canada’s pension bosses paid too much?

Are Canada’s pension bosses paid too much?

Canada's public pension funds pay their executives huge salaries. But as performance continues to trail benchmarks, salary levels are coming under more scrutiny. Sarah Rundell takes a deep dive into the complex world of how to incentivise and reward pension fund executives.

Sort content by

USS: Low leverage and US exposure helped navigate UK bond market turmoil

Speaking at USS’s 2022 Institutions’ Meeting, Simon Pilcher told stakeholders that the asset manager had navigated market turmoil in the UK bond market by having less leverage than peer funds and diversification, explaining USS also hedges inflation and interest rate risk with US bonds.

Landmark tech investment boosts Denmark’s Lægernes Pension

Denmark's Lægernes Pension has just completed a series of tech investments to further sharpen its investment processes. Michael Daniel Andersen, head of portfolio construction, believes natural language processing revealing what people are reading and researching will offer some of the most valuable new investment signals ahead.

Positive stock and bond correlation will make portfolios more volatile

Today's positive stock-bond correlation means balanced portfolios will be more volatile without the natural hedge that bonds have long provided to stocks.

Posting bonds not cash as collateral: Belgium’s KBC on LDI

Belgium’s KBC Pensioenfonds, the pension fund for the banking and insurance group, runs a large LDI programme. But unlike UK pension funds who had to fire sell assets to post margin during the recent gilt crisis, KBC can post bonds, not cash, as collateral.

NZ Super culls equities, focuses on impact

New Zealand Super has radically slashed the holdings in its passive equities portfolio as it re-aligns the portfolio with a Paris-aligned benchmark. It’s part of the fund’s shift to a sustainable finance focus which includes improving the fund’s already-good ESG profile and a more long-term future focus on impact investing.

NBIM to major on contrarianism and technology over the next three years

NBIM has unveiled its latest investment strategy for the period 2023 to 2025 outlining a contrarian approach and greater integration of technology in its investment processes in a quest to become the best large investment fund in the world.

Previous