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  • The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), under Chair Gary Gensler, has proposed a set of rules that would establish uniform climate risk disclosure standards for public reporting companies and impose ESG disclosure requirements on certain investment funds and certain US investment managers. International Comparative Legal Guides International Business Reports
  • The US Securities and Exchange Commission had prepared a draft proposal that could make it hard for hedge funds, private equity firms, and pension funds to work with cryptocurrency-related firms. Crypto Lists Ltd
  • Approval is going to pave the way for pension funds and RIA-based funds to be able to invest in assets in a spot Bitcoin ETF. Cointelegraph Magazine
  • Financial repression by central banks all over the developed world forced retirees, pension funds, endowments, etc. to take increased risks or miss their investment targets. GoldSeek
  • By 2030, the majority of workplace defined contribution savers will have their pension pots managed in schemes of over £30bn and by 2040 all local government pension funds will be invested in pools of £200bn or more. The Telegraph
  • The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark is incredibly flexible and is providing direct finance as well as credit and political risk cover of up to 100%. Global Trade Review (GTR)
  • OIKN is offering infrastructure development investment opportunities in IKN through a cooperation between the sovereign wealth fund of Indonesia, Indonesia Investment Authority (INA), and the SWF of Saudi Arabia, Public Investment Fund. PwC
  • UK asset owners are concerned that despite unequivocal warnings from the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the risks of delayed action on climate change, that short-term interests are trumping long-term interests of pension funds. IPE
  • The new Climate Investment Fund, managed by Norfund, will make its first transmission investment in an Indian project being developed by ReNew Power, together with KLP, Norway's largest pension company. Norfund
  • The Church of England Pensions Board has urged pension funds to take a more nuanced approach to investing in emerging markets to support a socially just climate transition, including by prioritising countries which are most at risk from physical climate impacts. Environmental Finance
  • China's ability to deploy capital through state-owned entities far exceeds anything the United States could consider through its own institutions, but the United States' pension funds, endowments, and institutional investors deploy trillions of dollars into global equities every day. CSIS
  • Investors including pension funds, family offices and insurers are set to increase allocations to private equity and private credit in 2023, despite recession fears and rising interest rates. Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Investment Funds in Latin America uses a series of case studies to highlight how money laundering, corruption and organized crime risks exist in private investment funds in Latin America. Eurasia Review
  • Foreign investors residing in countries or territories that are a high risk for money laundering by establishing securities investment funds or securities investment companies in Vietnam. ASEAN Business News
  • Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Kuwait Investment Authority, Public Investment Fund and Qatar Investment Authority are founding members of the One Planet Sovereign Wealth Funds, a network of SWFs that seek to identify, align and invest in climate-change related opportunities. Zawya
  • Governments and private investors, such as pension funds, asset managers, and sovereign wealth funds, could then make better decisions about which projects in Africa - and in the developing world more broadly - are both socially beneficial and privately profitable. Foreign Affairs Magazine
  • The beginning of 2023 is likely to bring fresh capital and risk allocation from long-term institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds seeking the historically attractive yields currently offered by high quality global fixed income products, such as Asia HG. Nikko AM Global Site
  • Almost all questioned at sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and family offices responsible for $307.5 billion assets under management believe the price of gold will be higher at the end of 2023 compared with the end of 2022. Digital Journal
  • Pension funds are costing retirees thousands of pounds by not taking enough risk and ignoring British investment opportunities, leading experts have warned. The Telegraph
  • When pension funds in the United States, the United Kingdom and Northern Europe suffer heavy losses, the pensions of future retirees are at risk. Al Jazeera Centre for Studies
  • Since the global financial crisis, higher risk or more complex lending or trading moved into the opaque and less regulated shadow banking system - non-bank financial institutions which include insurance companies, pension funds, mutual or hedge funds, family offices and speciality financiers. The New Indian Express
  • National Pension Service, the world's third-largest pension fund, plans to give out an average of 75 million won of year-end bonus to each investment portfolio manager, the highest level in Korea's pension fund industry. AsianInvestor

Last updated: 26 March 2024



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