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How bank capital rules could shut pension funds out of hedging
Schemes’ temporary protection from clearing derivatives is being undermined by new bank capital rules.
RPMI Railpen hires board member
Angelien Kemna has been appointed to the board of Railpen Investments.
CDC: The magic bullet for UK pensions?
PP looks at the pros and cons of pooling risk
Government plans to boost occupational pensions emerge
Jack Jones examines the ideas that could form the bedrock of the government's ambitious plan to reinvigorate workplace pensions.
Investors demand companies cut carbon emissions
A group of institutional investors has written to the world's largest public companies to demand reductions in their carbon emissions.
Emerging market appeal spreads to sec lending
More and more pension funds are making their securities lending programmes work harder for them by expanding into emerging markets, as Helen Fowler reports
Emerging market appeal spreads to sec lending
More and more pension funds are making their securities lending programmes work harder for them by expanding into emerging markets, as Helen Fowler reports
APG and TIAA-CREF invest $1.5bn in US malls
NETHERLANDS/US - Dutch pension fund APG and the US pension fund manager TIAA-CREF have joined forces to invest in five US shopping malls valued at $1.5bn.
Its not easy being green: pension funds and property invesment
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the opportunites that exist for investors in the real estate market and how initiatives such as the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark will affect them
Half of GP 100 panel believe SEC should issue stronger proxy access rules
Global - Half of the Global Pensions 100 Panel believe the Securities and Exchange Commission should issue new regulations on proxy access after its original rules on the matter were overturned in the courts.
Funds renew calls for proxy access regulation
US - Pension funds have strengthened their calls for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue new regulations on proxy access.
APG updates governance codes
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund manager APG has updated its corporate governance and voting policy, putting more pressure on companies to take stakeholders' interests and sustainability issues into account.
Guus Warringa of APG: Fighting your corner
Guus Warringa, board member and chief counsel, legal, tax, regulations and compliance at APG Asset Management, talks to Chris Panteli about fighting a one-size-fits-all approach to regulation and encouraging other pension funds to speak up for their interests...
Monday Movers
APG Group; BNY Mellon; Dreyfus Corporation; Northern Trust; TRS; QIC; AXA Investment Managers; Acadian Asset Management; BlackRock; Aon Risk Solutions; SSgA; Mercer; RBC Dexia Investor Services; Schroders
Pension funds win energy disclosure from property managers
GLOBAL - A global consortium of pension asset managers including USS, APG and PGGM has convinced the world's largest property managers to disclose detailed data on the environmental performance of their funds for the first time.
J.P. Morgan completes $12.5bn emerging markets transition for APG
NETHERLANDS - J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has just completed a $12.5bn transition of pension manager APG's emerging markets portfolio, and been named custodian of those assets, the firm said.
Improving hedge fund governance
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at how the recent AIMA guidelines are designed to improve governance in the hedge fund industry
Round up - 18 July
NAPF fears Solvency II type rules; Call for councils to remove £1bn in pension funds from tobacco firms; Dick Sluimers: APG pension chief calls for level regulatory playing field
Best practice for hedge funds
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at how the recent AIMA guidelines are designed to improve governance in the hedge fund industry
Week on the Web: What stories have you missed out on this week?
GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.
APG: Dutch managers losing market share
NETHERLANDS - Dutch asset managers are managing an ever-smaller share of local pension assets, APG Group said in its annual report today.
Week on the Web: What stories have you missed out on this week?
GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.
APG hunts for co-investors in hedge fund seeding programme
NETHERLANDS - Pension fund manager APG is looking for an additional €100m ($144m) for its hedge fund seeding platform IMQubator, before closing it to new investors, and plans to launch a second seeder fund.
APG joins forces with Goodman for PEPR bid
EUROPE - APG and Australian property firm Goodman have joined forces as part of a consortium making a €1.2bn ($1.7bn) bid for ProLogis European Properties.