All Schroders articles – Page 2
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FeaturesCOP26: Mobilising finance to immobilise climate change
COP26 will kick-off on October 31, a date surely circled on the calendar of pension scheme professionals across the country, as dominating this year’s conference will be a highly anticipated update on the progress of meeting global net-zero targets by 2050.
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NewsSt James’s Place shakes up fund manager arrangements
On the go: St James’s Place Wealth Management, with £135.5bn in assets under management, has appointed new managers and terminated a manager for its newly rebranded UK fund. The manager uses a number of different advisers including Redington.
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Access Pool launches seven new sub-funds worth £5.5bn
On the go: The Access Pool, which handles assets for 11 Local Government Pension Scheme funds with around £46bn in assets under management, has launched seven new sub-funds worth £5.5bn.
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NewsUK schemes lobby ministers over climate ambitions
Some of the UK’s largest pension schemes have written to prime minister Boris Johnson and other senior politicians calling for strong action on climate change ahead of the COP26 conference in November.
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OpinionHow the pandemic drove financial innovation
One of the few positive side effects of crises is that they drive spectacular examples of innovation.
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Greenwashing poses obstacle for would-be sustainable investors
On the go: Sixty per cent of investors say greenwashing is an obstacle to their sustainable investment intentions, while active engagement is one of the key ways asset managers drive sustainable change, according to a report by Schroders.
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NewsESG gauntlet laid down as member demand grows
Asset manager Schroders says trustees do not do enough to communicate their views on sustainability to their managers, as environmental, social and governance issues rise up the institutional and consumer agenda.
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Tower Hamlets completes £700m equity protection strategy
On the go: The London Borough of Tower Hamlets Pension Fund has undertaken a £700m equity protection strategy with Schroders.
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Should there be an industry-wide methodology for measuring value?
When government boasts about being responsible for pushing almost 10m people into pension saving via auto-enrolment, you can be quite sure they want it to be a success.
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OpinionTech can bring sophisticated quant closer to smart beta budget
The rise in popularity of factor investing for UK pension funds in recent years has been inexorable.
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FeaturesKent cuts passive equities for private equity and infra
The £6.2bn Kent County Council Superannuation Fund has moved capital from UK passive equities into private equity and infrastructure. The fund narrowly missed its benchmark for returns in the year to March 2018, after underperformance from equity and fixed income mandates.
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FeaturesAvon asset managers warned over poor performance
The Avon Pension Fund has raised the prospect of dropping some of its active managers after a significant period of underperformance.
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FeaturesBarnet pension scheme votes to join the LAPFF
The London Borough of Barnet Pension Fund has voted to join the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, with the pension fund committee rejecting mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s manifesto push to bring London local authority pension schemes out of fossil fuel investment.
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FeaturesKent stands by Neil Woodford despite massive underperformance
Despite concerns over the performance of its UK equities mandate with Woodford Investment Management, the Kent County Council Superannuation Fund has elected to retain its mandate with the embattled asset manager.
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Barnet switches DGFs for property and private equity
The £1.1bn London Borough of Barnet Pension Fund has resolved to cut its 20 per cent allocation to diversified growth funds managed by Schroders and Newton Investment Management.
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OpinionReasons to be cheerful: What to expect from markets in 2018
There were two big positive surprises in 2017.
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From trees to manager fees: Top 5 investment stories from 2017
Year in review: Innovation characterised investment headlines in 2017, as schemes and members demanded more sophisticated approaches to pension investment.
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Opinion
How pension schemes allocate to EMD
The benefit of pursuing diversification and long-term risk-adjusted return opportunities is widely known.
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Opinion
Positive EMD performance: Will it last?
EMD survey: More than four years have passed since the taper tantrum, when the US Federal Reserve started to gradually tighten its quantitative easing programme, leading to investor panic and sell-off in some emerging markets.
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First asset managers commit to LGPS transparency code
The Local Government Pension Scheme advisory board has launched its code of transparency to improve cost disclosure, amid early indications that asset managers will sign up.
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