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...Thirty-six “master trusts”, the largest workplace DC pension schemes, held three-quarters of the DC pension sector’s £143bn total assets, or £105bn, as of June, according to The Pensions Regulator....
...UK pension fund trustees must consider increasing the range of their investments, including in start-ups or other illiquid assets, or face “robust” intervention, the British regulator has warned....
...Data visualisation by Keith Fray Letters in response to this article: Pension fund assets could be made to work for benefit of all / From Rory Murphy, Chair of Trustees, Merchant Navy Officers Pension...
...Wading into a traditionally male-dominated genre, feminist sci-fi icon Ursula K Le Guin, who taught Robinson literature at the University of California San Diego in 1977, was one of the first to show the...
...ties (FT) CVC raises $800mn loan fund in sign of thaw for corporate borrowers (FT) Investors spend $200mn on ‘worthless’ Bed Bath & Beyond shares (FT) Another nail in the coffin for private sector pension...
...One scoop to start: Galois Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund whose founder is credited with spotting the collapse of cryptocurrency luna earlier this year, has been caught off-guard after about half...
...FRANK Uh-huh, what, the pension-fund guys? KENDALL Yeah. What do they think of me, Frank?...
...In 2017 the chief investment officer of the Idaho pension system apparently dubbed the lack of volatility the “phoney happiness” of private markets....
...Nine months later, she added Pastor Jurgen Matthesius, a blond, mohawked Australian who runs a 10,000-member evangelical church in San Diego, and Richard Mack, a 70-year-old former Arizona sheriff, who once...
...And we know, from the balance sheet of Alameda, that value of FTT is kind of integral to the whole financial structure of the San Bankman-Fried empire....
...That mirrors the preference of some big pension funds, which so dislike showing volatility in their accounts that they’ve embraced the unorthodox economic idea of paying an “illiquidity premium”....
...Private equity bosses, hedge fund executives, venture capitalists and pension fund CIOs flocked to South Florida to defrost from a dreary first month of the year on Wall Street — all in search of a new investment...
...My fellow researchers and I examined the campaign of the Boardroom Accountability Project, launched by New York City’s Pension Fund System in 2014....
...The trustees for UK pension funds are often unable to get details about asset managers’ voting and engagement with companies, according to research published on Monday from Dalriada Trustees, a London-based...
...BT also revealed an agreement with pension fund trustees to pay £1.1bn a year towards its £8bn deficit, falling to £800m over time....
...“Rio is at the start of a very long process of rebuilding trust,” said Debby Blakey, chief executive of Australia pension fund Hesta, which led a coalition of more than 20 Australian and international investor...
...their funds — but overseas investors, such as the sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi and Singapore, or one of the Canadian pension funds that have become significant backers of venture firms in Europe....
...Formerly chief executive of Phoenix Group, the pension and life insurance consolidator, he has a record of dealmaking....
...“This is emerging as we speak,” says Kirsty Jenkinson, head of sustainable investment and stewardship strategies at Calstrs, the Californian teachers’ pension fund....
...“On the one hand, I think family offices have a tremendous ability to move capital quickly, but they can also be quite conservative depending on who is on the board and who the trustees are,” says Abigail...
...Chair of the plan’s trustees is Sarah Hogg, a former chair of the Financial Reporting Council and presently non-executive director of the FCA board....
...The report highlighted difficulties for many trusts in recruiting suitable trustees with the necessary expertise and time, and said the Department for Education’s desire to streamline boards was “potentially...
...Regulators also required pension funds to act. Last year the UK directed pension fund trustees to consider ESG factors or give a reason why they had not. Some investors were already on board....
...With $6tn in assets — some of which is probably your pension money — the Malvern, Pennsylvania-based group has disrupted the investment management world and become a major headache for “active” managers....
...Gillian Tett will be giving a keynote speech at S&P Global’s inaugural Climate Event at the New York Stock Exchange on March 2. And she will speak at the YPO EDGE forum in San Diego on March 5....
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