IPE Top 500 Asset Managers 2024 rankings
IPE covers a good variety of very current and relevant topics. It is good to read the high-level, independent and objective perspectives from pension funds in other European countries; many of them are dealing with the same issues as we are, so it is interesting to learn from their experiences, especially when they are ahead of where we are on the curve.
December 2024 (online) | IPE
Dec 30, 2024 · News UK regulator urged to support switch to DB surplus focus for growth drive. 2025-01-13T10:15:00Z. TPR and other economic regulators have been called in to Downing Street on Thursday to explain how they will support the government’s growth agenda
Top 500 Asset Managers | Investments and Pensions Europe
Generation of change: asset managers grapple with AI on both sides of the P&L. Data highlights from IPE Top 500 Asset Managers 2024: Global asset management AUM: €111.4trn ($120trn) | Year-on-year increase of 8.6% on the 2023 total of €102.6trn | Global institutional assets: €36trn (2023: €35.1trn) | European institutional assets €11.9trn (2023: €11.5trn)
Viewpoint: IOSCO’s pre-hedging proposals fall short
3 days ago · The regulator’s umbrella body needs to deliver recommendations that clearly prohibit pre-hedging where dealers are in competition, says Emma Lokko The practice, which is currently under review, is where dealers use the information received from an investor about a trade they want to execute to pre ...
UK regulator opts for ‘sustainable value’ in draft new stewardship ...
Nov 12, 2024 · The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has proposed a new definition of stewardship as part of a consultation on updates to the UK Stewardship Code that also include dropping escalation as a standalone principle.
Dutch doctors fund’s concentrated portfolio a ‘risky strategy’
Dec 16, 2024 · The decision for the Dutch pension fund for doctors (Pensioenfonds Huisartsen) to invest in only 70 companies in its equity portfolio is being praised as brave, but is also criticised from within the pension sector because of the high risk of significant deviations from the market.
PKBS switches to Pictet, LGIM to diversify risk | News | IPE
Jan 3, 2025 · PKBS, the CHF15bn (€16bn) Pensionskasse of the city of Basel, has switched to Pictet Asset Management and Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) to manage assets worth over CHF4.5bn to steer clear of concentration risks that surfaced following the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS. “A tender [of asset management mandates] can have various reasons, such as inadequate ...
EFAMA sets out requests for Commission omnibus initiative
2 days ago · The European asset management body EFAMA has gone public with a comment on the European Commission’s plans to revisit the bloc’s sustainability reporting rules, saying that asset managers need corporate sustainability data. Next month the European Commission is expected to present an initiative ...
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Norway bumps up SWF spend once more in 2025 budget
Oct 8, 2024 · Norway is digging deeper into its sovereign wealth fund to pay for government spending next year, with the spend set to have increased for three years in a row, according to proposals unveiled yesterday in 2025 budget plans.