ESG integration in BCI's $25 billion private equity portfolio produces meaningful, double-digit percentage increases in value through focusing on strengthening operational resilience, unlocking growth, and building more valuable businesses. A paper by BCI and Stanford University’s Long-Term Investing Initiative showcases the findings through case studies.
Reducing exposure to the risk in coal is particularly challenging for South Africa’s $122 billion Government Employees Pension Fund. ESG manager Belaina Negash explains the complexities due to the industry's tie with the economy and the fund's transition framework.
Fonds de reserve pour les retraites (FRR), France’s €21 billion ($24 billion) pension reserve fund, has increased its weighting to equity in line with a new strategic asset allocation to reflect the investor's longer return horizon. It is also eyeing more unlisted assets including private equity, private debt and infrastructure.
As geopolitical uncertainty leaves many European pension funds exploring how to invest more in defence, Norway's KLP has just divested two listed defence companies for selling weapons to Israel because of human rights concerns in Gaza.
Günther Schiendl, chair of Austria's VBV Pension Fund board explains how he's enabling younger savers to access more equity investment. However, despite long-held plans to develop the allocation to private equity, US tariff and trade policy has halted the strategy for now.
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.
Asset owners collaborating to influence labour rights in investee companies have another string to their bow with the release of the Committee on Workers' Capital report examining large fund manager voting performance.
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