All Pensions articles
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White papersA factors-first approach to efficiently growing assets in the surplus space
Corporate pension plans’ top priority: Building efficient portfolios in the surplus space
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Amundi Pension Funds Letter n°12
The coming of summer has also seen the return of extreme heatwaves, catastrophic flooding and devastating forest fires. The arrival of the COP26 could not be more timely given the need for a universal response to the climate crisis. Pension funds as major global asset owners have a key role to play in this response.
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Blog | Brunel’s index path to net-zero investing
In this Q&A, Faith Ward, chief responsible investment officer at Brunel Pension Partnership, tells FTSE Russell’s Aled Jones how Brunel is integrating climate change risk into its investment policy, including plans for new passive funds tracking the FTSE Russell EU Paris-Aligned benchmark (PAB) series.
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Amundi Pension Funds Letter n°11
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of discussion has focused on the worsening of the retirement prospects of savers around the world. Indeed, exceptional policies, such as the possibility of raiding retirement pots in advance and the low interest rate environment supported by dovish monetary policies, could potentially have dramatic impacts on the availability of pensions in the long run.
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Climate Transition Buy & Maintain Credit for Pension Funds
Buy & Maintain mandates are increasingly being used by pension funds to help meet their cash flow needs.
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The role global corporate bonds play for Irish defined benefit schemes
As Irish DB pension schemes continue to de-risk, an allocation to investment grade credit could offer compelling opportunities within a well-diversified portfolio.
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Core Matters: Sustainability and Adequacy in EU Public and Private Pension Schemes
As reported by EUROSTAT1 in 2019, pensions are the main income source for close to one quarter of the EU‐28 population. Therefore, it is very important that pensions should provide retirees with a decent standard of living and protect them from poverty.
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Private credit markets – adjusting, adapting and responding
Lately, there has been renewed interest to get deals done and enter into negotiations on new investments as private credit markets re-open following a period of relative stability and reduced volatility in publicly-traded markets.
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Optimizing pension plan outcomes using public and private real assets
Allocating to real assets is rarely straightforward, and investing in them is often considered a trade-off between performance and liquidity. Our latest paper offers a framework to help investors with those concerns and the key considerations when selecting public versus private investments.
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Seeking income – the case for investing in private corporate debt
Pension funds with current cashflow requirements depend on a steady stream of payouts, but face a number of unique challenges in their search for income against a backdrop of lower-for-longer yields and volatile investment conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Amundi Pension Fund Letter N 10
Today, investors have a unique opportunity to observe the spreading of a real virus alongside the viral nature of financial markets and the real economy. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller points out in his book, “Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events”, stories and images are created around new economic events1. In some cases, these stories are memories of the past and their spreading can have major implications regarding performances of economies and financial markets.
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Appraising home bias exposure - Mexico
Despite the increased integration of the world’s economies and financial markets, studies show that pension funds worldwide continue to skew their portfolios to domestic securities. This paper examines the investment effects of home bias in the equity allocations of the Mexican pension fund market:
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Creating Resilient Pension Portfolios Post Covid-19
Covid-19 is a ‘once in a hundred years’ cataclysmic event. Superlatives that do it justice are hard to find.
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The client lens: An interview with Faith Ward
Brunel Pension Partnership’s chief responsible investment officer discusses climate change, greenwashing and the urgent need to repair flaws in the financial system.
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Mercer CFA Institute Global Pensions Index
Pension systems around the world are facing additional pressures in 2020. The widespread economic impact due to COVID-19 has had both immediate and long-term implications for retirees.
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Cash flow matching through a crisis
As defined benefit pension funds mature, their need for cash-generating investments only increases.
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The Covid-19 crisis: two sides of the same coin for pension funds
From a long-term investment perspective, the unprecedented global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic brings along both challenges and opportunities, which constitute two sides of the same coin for institutional investors such as pension funds.
