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Northern Trust launches ESG capability

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
Global custodian Northern Trust announced it has redeveloped its environmental, social and governance analytics capabilities to now include key environmental data categories. Northern Trust's clients, many of which are asset owners such as pension and ...

Asset managers still bearish, but less so

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... research indicates that over 50% of asset owners were not taking a tactical view on risk assets at end-Q2 (bfinance Asset Owner Survey 2020) and only a quarter are changing their strategic asset allocation in 2020, indicating broad faith in existing ...

Investment committees not up to scratch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
New research from Thinking Ahead Institute has identified the flaws in investment committee practices and governance. The research, Going from good to great, points to the aviation industry as one the investment industry could stand to learn from. The ...

Aussie investors unhappy with pandemic performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... considerably more dissatisfied with portfolio performance than their global peers, according to bfinance's mid-year Asset Owner Survey. Over 40% of super fund respondents in Australia have been dissatisfied with the performance of their direct property ...

US pension funds form trading alliance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
Four US pension funds have partnered to form the Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA), in a bid to increase and encourage peer-to-peer trading activity in the securities lending and repo markets to benefit asset owners. California Public Employees' ...

AustralianSuper throws weight behind SDG platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... fund, has joined British Columbia Investment Management and PGGM to establish the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP). The platform will be driven by artificial intelligence data with the aim of enabling investors to assess ...

Vale Ian Perkins

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... 29. Perkins spent the last six years working with BNP Paribas Securities Services, where he was responsible for its asset owner business across the Asia Pacific region. He had recently departed BNP Paribas to embark on a new journey, joining Paul Toepfer ...

Report reveals superficiality of ESG pledges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
A new report has revealed a number of superannuation funds, including AustralianSuper, voted down shareholder resolutions on climate change despite signing up to the Investor Group on Climate Change. The Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility ...

Survey shows future of mandates

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
A survey of 110 pension funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies worldwide has revealed the new priority position ESG is taking in asset allocation. The survey was produced by the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... documentation, regulation, set up, and finding and hiring project management staff and consultants," he said. "So an asset owner really needs to consider for the quantum of the assets that they might be trading; do they want to do that themselves and ...