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Asset managers in our listing are ranked by global assets under management and by the country of the main headquarters. Assets managed by these groups total €111.4trn (2023: €102.6trn)

2025年1月2日 · The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is further relaxing membership requirements for financial firms working towards a net zero transition, as the exodus from the coalition’s sub-groups continues. Going forward, GFANZ “will allow any financial institution working to mobilise capital and lower the barriers to financing energy transition to participate,” it said in a ...

2024年11月28日 · After two weeks of discussions, COP29 ended in the early hours of Sunday, with moderate success. Over the two weeks, delegates and negotiators came to the table to agree on key issues such as climate adaptation and carbon credit trading, and a climate finance deal was reached at the last hour. Ariana Griffa, senior policy manager at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC ...

2025年1月6日 · Consultancy LCP expects that at least one defined benefit (DB) superfund is formed and one new insurer enters the UK’s pension risk transfer (PRT) market in 2025. The first superfund transfer for a non-distressed sponsor was completed by Clara-Pensions with Wates Group in December, opening the door for a much wider range of sponsors and trustees to look at superfunds as a credible endgame ...

2024年12月6日 · The UK’s chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has used her first annual policy statement known as Mansion House Speech on 14 November to propose merging Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) assets and consolidating defined contribution (DC) schemes into ’megafunds’ to unlock £80bn of investment for infrastructure projects and businesses of the future. The reforms are expected ...

2024年11月4日 · After nearly a fortnight of negotiations and side events in Colombia, COP16 came to an anticlimactic end on Friday. The international biodiversity summit, which in 2022 resulted in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) – hailed as nature’s version of the Paris Climate Accord – saw major deals postponed this time around. Negotiators failed to reach an agreement on the ...

Special Report IPE’s asset management strategy panel - Sustainability Top 500 Asset Managers 2024 How will sustainability drive investment and operational decisions over the next three to five years?

2025年1月7日 · Clarks Footwear Pension Fund has completed a second buy-in with the Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) for £540m (€651m), securing the pensions of almost 5,000 pensioners and dependants and over 3,000 deferred policyholders. The buy-in follows the fund’s first transaction with PIC for £280m in 2022, as PIC has now insured all £820m of the fund’s defined benefit (DB) liabilities. The ...

2025年1月10日 · The Texan attorney general said in a statement at the time: “Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street utilised the Climate Action 100+ and the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative to signal their mutual intent to reduce the output of thermal coal, which predictably increased the cost of electricity for Americans across the United States.” BlackRock withdrew its US arm from CA100+ last year, but ...