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Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... funds (US$ millions) Rank Fund Market Total Assets 1 Government Pension Investment Japan $1,237,636 2 Government Pension Fund Norway $893,088 3 Federal Retirement Thrift U.S. $485,575 4 National Pension South Korea $462,161 5 ABP Netherlands $404,310 ...

Norwegian pension fund drops 52 coal companies

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... announced that 52 coal companies, including two Australian ones, will be excluded from the roughly $1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global. The exclusions came after the introduction in February of a new "product-based coal criterion" in the fund's ...

Economic uncertainty demands agile insto investment

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... institutions surveyed, 77% of central banks are most affected by rising interest rates, while 90% of SWFs and government pension fund respondents said an equity market correction will have a moderate or significant impact on their investment strategy ...

Norwegian fund reviews ESG approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... investment expectations on human and children's rights, water management and climate change. Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, which manages about US$804 billion, recently released its 2015 review of responsible investment which expresses expectations ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... trillion in March 2015. According to Preqin's research, the largest sovereign wealth funds are Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (with $818 billion in assets under management) and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, with $773 billion. "Sovereign ...

IFM Investors wins UK pension fund mandates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
IFM Investors have won two infrastructure investment mandates worth $364 million from two UK local government pension funds, Avon Pension Fund and Dorset County Pension Fund. The mandates will be invested in IFM Investors' portfolio of core equity ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... list with its $1.2 trillion, and was the only fund to break into the trillion. It was followed Norway's Government Pension Fund, with funds under management of $858 billion. The Netherlands' ABP came in third with $415 billion, followed by South Korea's ...

Citi wins custody of Norway's Oil Fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... as custodian to Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the body that manages Norway's $850 billion Government Pension Fund Global. Colloquially known as 'the Oil Fund', according to Towers Watson it is the second largest pension fund in the world. ...

Insto investors urged to challenge private equity ethics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... extractive practices that have been associated with the PE industry." Some investors, such as the Norwegian government pension fund, choose not to invest in PE firms given their lack of transparency about what they invest in, the negative effects of ...

Sovereign Wealth Funds surge to $5 trillion

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... 2012-13," Preqin head of hedge fund products Amy Bensted said. The largest sovereign wealth fund globally is Government Pension Fund - Global, based in Norway, with $775.2bn in assets under management; this is an increase of $185bn since 2012. Asia-based ...