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.
US - Pension funds have strengthened their calls for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue new regulations on proxy access.
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, 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...
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
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.
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.
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at how the recent AIMA guidelines are designed to improve governance in the hedge fund industry
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
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at how the recent AIMA guidelines are designed to improve governance in the hedge fund industry