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Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

Danish pension giant Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP) has been urged to cull risk, establish formal portfolio benchmarks and reduce private markets exposures, according to an external review committee which handed down a 536-page report into the fund’s investment operations after an 18-month review. Following the release of the report by the board this week, co-author of the review Andrew Ang unpacks the findings with Top1000funds.com.

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Asset owners report half of all costs

Asset owners are reporting only half of their true total costs according to analysis by CEM Benchmarking exclusively for Top1000funds.com. This means tens of billions of dollars across the industry is not being reported. The authors look at case studies and make suggestions for industry best practice.

RI at core of manager relationships

When leading asset owners work with managers, they incorporate ESG issues into contracts and threaten to terminate relationships due to materialising ESG issues. To help make ESG considerations mainstream in investment management contracts the PRI has released a guide for investors on the manager selection and monitoring process.

Opportunity for FI to be more impactful

As more investors look to align with the SDGs, Andrew Parry, says there is a huge opportunity for the fixed income market to be more impactful and innovative.

Car industry divided by race to zero

The car industry is a stark case study in the unstoppable momentum in a race to zero that will leave behind old-school manufacturers. According to champion of COP26, Nigel Topping, Detroit’s car manufacturers risk Armageddon by staying in the fossil fuel industry while European and Chinese.

Time to change the curriculum

Finance education needs to move away from neo-classical economics towards a more holistic approach including sustainability, philosophy and ethics. Robeco is actively engaging with leading universities in The Netherlands to change the curriculum.

COVID-19 hits retirement system adequacy

COVID-19 has exacerbated retirement insecurity and governments need to use this as an opportunity to examine their system inadequacies and make improvements according to David Knox, partner at Mercer and author of the annual Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension index which measures adequacy, sustainability and integrity of 39 retirement systems.

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