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...Unrest has been bubbling at the Bundesbank, a conservative and secretive pillar of the German establishment, since Joachim Nagel became its president last year and it hired Boston Consulting Group to make...
...fallen sharply; the flow of US money into ESG-labelled funds has slowed after poor performance; prominent financial groups including Allianz, Lloyd’s of London and Vanguard have pulled out of net zero alliances...
...At least two pension funds, Cbus Super and Bundespensionskasse, have left the asset owner section of Gfanz, while investment consultancy Meketa has left another section....
...Conservative attacks over the climate change issues have coincided with new caution by BlackRock and other asset managers over participating in industry alliances that seek to tackle climate change....
...The UK pharmaceutical retailer’s transfer of £4.8bn of pension obligations to insurer Legal & General brings its potential sale by owner Walgreens Boots Alliance one step closer....
...The US and Japan are planning the biggest upgrade to their security alliance since 1960 in a move to counter China....
...Australia’s biggest pension fund is going digital and PwC is turning down millions of dollars in business....
...Job moves Calpers private equity head Yup Kim is leaving the US’s largest public pension fund to become chief investment officer of the Texas Municipal Retirement System....
...As head of global consulting firm Kearney, Paul Laudicina was subject to a maximum six-year tenure....
...Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced the decision on the floor of the National Assembly after consulting Macron at the Élysée....
...Another recent paper by Richard Ennis — one of the doyens of US investment consulting — also concluded that there was “no support for the proposition that private equity has added value to pension fund returns...
...Finland joined the alliance in April. Varadkar said Ireland was “never going to be a significant military power, is never going to be a huge asset to Nato, if we ever were to join it”....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 16 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The split marks an end to one of the most successful US-China investing alliances....
...The Kyiv government engaged BlackRock’s consulting arm in November to determine how best to attract that kind of capital, and then added JPMorgan in February....
...So Leo, do you think Japan Inc, despite all this demographic stuff, has reason to be cautiously optimistic?...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 4. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“It’s not about trophies this time,” said Rochelle Kopp, managing principal at the M&A advisory boutique Japan Intercultural Consulting in Tokyo....
...Here’s how the US is deepening military alliances in China’s backyard. We’re also reading . . ....
...Hughes’s letter warned the committee “will continue to evaluate your ESG practices and your relationship to Texas pension systems”....
...Ministers are also considering reforms to the £39bn Pension Protection Fund that protects company pension plans that could unlock tens of billions of pounds for investment in UK businesses....
...It’s a small world after all Prateek Gupta, the man behind Trafigura’s nickel fiasco, has some interesting ties to another Gupta, our Alphaville colleagues point out: Sanjeev Gupta, whose GFG Alliance helped...
...Woke Inc is under attack. Battle lines have been drawn in America’s latest culture war, with Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, its general....
...The move comes after Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a potential Republican US presidential candidate in 2024, led a resolution to stop the state’s pension funds from considering environmental, social and...
...Florida’s treasurer last year pulled $2bn away from BlackRock over ESG, although the state’s pension funds are still using the money manager....
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