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...The company said Lavine, a large donor to the Democratic party and the former chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees, “believes the time is right to take on a new role” and step back from day-to-day...
...Like GIC, Singapore’s Central Provident Fund also has abundant capital. While retail investors can use their CPF money to invest in selected stocks, that does not move the needle in terms of volumes....
...A spokesperson for the BP pension trustees said they had a duty to “continually review and assess all investment options to manage the security of the fund and members’ benefits”, adding that “such options...
...Thames Water’s shareholders, including pension funds Omers and USS as well as the Chinese and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, last month said that conditions imposed by Ofwat had made the company “uninvestable...
...HSBC is among a group of eligible financial institutions, which include Manulife and Invesco, that offer pension funds under the MPF retirement savings system....
...In some cases, when anti-ESG and boycott laws passed, public pension fund trustees balked at being forced to move money, saying it would violate their fiduciary duty to put investors first....
...Armitt is a former chair of the National Express Group and held senior roles with the Berkeley Group as well as the Board of Transport for London....
...Employers’ access to billions of pounds of surpluses in UK company pension funds would be eased under proposals set out by the government on Friday....
...The Financial Stability Board, which includes the world’s leading finance ministers, central bankers and regulators, said on Wednesday that after assessing a series of recent market panics, many funds and...
...Pension funds can use this to get access to gilts to hedge against movements in the value of their liabilities....
...facing pension funds It was not the most festive of Christmas cards....
...Ross Goobey managed the remarkable feat of persuading the fund’s trustees to let him invest in equities and dump the fund’s gilts....
...This week, an ill-judged statement from its board of trustees has put that hard-won reputation at risk — not least among SBTi’s own staff....
...For Mick McAteer, co-director of the Financial Inclusion Centre and a former board member of the Financial Conduct Authority, this is a problem....
...First, in the hunt for better than near-zero returns at home, Japanese institutions, including pension funds, life insurance companies and banks, have become major international investors....
...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....
...Second, the 27-nation bloc needs to mobilise more of its financial firepower from pension funds and retail investors....
...Led by pension funds and endowments, big investors sold 99 per cent of their private equity holdings at or below their net asset value on the secondary market last year, according to Jefferies, the most...
...liability-driven investing to pension funds....
...But he added that it would not be right for pension funds to simply invest in home markets due to ministerial pressure....
...He was not named as a central figure on CVC’s last two buyout funds, people familiar with the matter said, a sign of his increasing distance from the company he founded and built....
...“The indicative valuation results show a major improvement in the [USS] funding position,” said Dame Kate Barker, chair of the USS board of trustees....
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