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ESG progress for large funds: USS
The £23 billion ($37.7 billion) Universities Superannuation Scheme is the UK’s second largest pension fund and a signatory to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment. Kristen Paech talks to the fund’s co-head of responsible investment, David Russell, about the role institutional investors are playing in effecting environmental, social and governance change.
US endowment slams consultants
The $4 billion Claremont University Consortium (CUC) has criticised the service small endowment funds in the US are receiving from their investment consultants, labelling the solutions as “cookie cutter, boilerplate answers”.
How CalSTRS’ CEO achieved funded status
The legacy of Jack Ehnes, chief executive of CalSTRS for nearly 20 years, is the embedded long-term view in the culture of the organisation which impacts everything from investments to benefit planning strategy. He talks to Amanda White about managing multiple, complex and competing stakeholders for the good of California’s teachers.
Few stars in the bleak venture capital universe
For venture capital investors, the days of receiving 100-plus per cent internal rates of returns (IRRs) from a broad sweep of managers are gone. But this doesn’t mean investors should give up searching for the few remaining outperformers.
CalPERS goes big on the green transition
CalPERS, America’s largest public pension fund, is more than halfway towards its goal of investing more than $100 billion in climate solutions by 2030, as it aims to grow its sustainable investment team to 20 in the next few months.
Conservatism to stay for Norway’s DNB Liv
The $46 billion Norwegian DNB Livforskiring has a conservative strategy but it should not be confused with a static approach. The fund revises the investment strategy of its defined benefit offering on an annual basis. Norwegian pension investor DNB Livforsikring is set to stick to a conservative investment strategy due to continued regulatory pressures,
AP2 aligns portfolio with energy transition; forestry focus
In a recent update, AP2, the SEK 440 billion ($44.1 billion) Swedish buffer fund, outlined how it is investing in forestry, green bonds and bioenergy in support of the energy transition
Let’s work together quickly: Stronger Super chair
The time for ideological argument was over, said the chair of the Stronger Super Committee, Paul Costello, and the industry should work constructively to implement the Australian Government’s response to the Cooper Review.
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