In a recent board meeting, Florida SBA’s deputy CIO Alison Romano discusses the importance of fixed income despite rising interest rates impacting the asset class’s ability to offer protection in a downturn.
Climate lobbying by powerful trade associations is delaying and diluting the impact of net zero policies and running counter to the effort policy makers, companies and investors are making to reduce their emissions, says Clare Richards, senior engagement manager in the investments team at the £4.3 billion Church of England Pensions Board where she has … Read more
The CIO of the United Kingdom’s Pension Protection Fund warns that traditional private equity models are no longer going to reap the same return. It’s led the fund to explore opportunities in the European mid-market.
The increased adoption of RI principles was clearly visible in this second iteration of the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark. Scores within the RI factor saw the largest year-over-year increase with the average score across all funds increasing by 6.9, so where were these increased scores most evident?
While funds around the world do a good job of disclosing governance frameworks related to financial and investment risks, as revealed in the GPTB, but what is best practice for communicating governance around addressing large, one-off events such as the impact of COVID or war?
The transparency of pension fund disclosures has improved in the past year across the 15 countries and 75 pension funds measured in the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark, a collaboration between Top1000funds.com and CEM Benchmarking.
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