Pension funds

As NGOs come after correctional services companies, what can investors do to make sure they don’t bear the brunt of the risk?

Investors rely on the planet’s precious ecosystems to make financial returns. We must step up to protect them, says KLP’s Head of Responsible Investment

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Kirsty Jenkinson explains how the US pension giant deals with everything from data and engagement to asset allocation and private markets

Generation- and Goldman-managed strategies pay off for $26bn scheme

Investors must work harder to ensure that our statements and ambitions actually drive improvements, says the CEO of Sweden’s biggest pension fund

‘Our hope is to be able to produce corresponding evidence for passive management,’ says portfolio manager Tina Rönnholm

Pension funds can potentially play a critical role in combating climate change by providing much needed fi nancing and investment. Intervention is necessary to bridge the fi nancing gap of between $1.6 trillion to $3.8 trillion in mitigation costs and $180 billion in adaptation costs to limit global temperature rise and ecosystem collapse.1 Institutional investors such as pension funds have two motivations to providing such fi nancing. On one hand, if the investor community does not act, they face a potential portfolio value loss of $10.7 trillion triggered by the materialization of transition, physical and regulatory risks. On the other hand, the transition to a 2°C scenario is expected to yield $2.1 trillion in global “green” investment opportunities for investors.

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Companies and investors need to be more aware of water as an ecological and economic systemic risk, explains Johan Floren