Sweden’s AP2 takes bigger bites of China
The European pension fund has been increasing allocations to China A-shares and to Chinese bonds. The fund is managed primarily in-house and has crafted bespoke indices for ESG integration.
The European pension fund has been increasing allocations to China A-shares and to Chinese bonds. The fund is managed primarily in-house and has crafted bespoke indices for ESG integration.
GPIF’s Hiro Mizuno and AP2’s Eva Halvarsson stressed the importance of combating short-termism at every level of the investment chain and throughout the organisation, to forge sustainability.
The total investment costs of AP2 are only 17 basis points, yet the portfolio is described by chief executive, Eva Halvarsson as complex and advanced. So how do they do it?
AP2, the SEK300 billion Swedish buffer fund, is attracted to the diversification benefits and long-term nature of timber investments.
Chief executive of AP4, Mats Andersson has announced that the PDC has far exceeded its decarbonisation target and reached the $600 billion mark.
Alternative investments have become a valuable income stream and liability matching tool at UK pension fund Centrica says Chetan Ghosh, Chief investment Officer at the £6.7 billion pension fund. With current gilt yields making liability matching expensive, the fund has begun investing in alternative strategies that include solar panel installations benefiting from the government’s Feed-in-Tariff,
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