September 2026
23Sep

US. NYC Pensions Eye Private Markets in $5 Billion Green Allocation

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine unveiled a plan to steer billions of dollars into private markets, characterizing the move as a shift designed to help the investor meet its climate-related goals while safeguarding returns. The Comptroller's Office's Bureau of Asset Management said the proposal targets three of the City's public pension funds: New York City Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), Employees' Retirement System (NYCERS) and Board of Education Retirement System (BERS), according to a statement on Wednesday. In all, the...

September 23, 2026
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18Sep

US. NYC pension funds make $300M affordable housing investment to help solve apartment shortage

Four New York City municipal pension funds are investing $300 million into a trust connected to the country’s biggest alliance of labor unions in an attempt to address a dire housing shortage in the five boroughs, Comptroller Mark Levine announced Thursday. The new investment in the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust marks the first allocation of its kind since Levine announced a plan to direct $4 billion in city pension funds over the next four years to build more apartments. “This is...

September 18, 2026
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03Sep

Danish pensions meet 2030 transition investments goal

The Danish pensions industry has met its 2019 joint commitment to invest DKr450 billion ($70.1 billion; €60.2 billion) in the green transition by 2030, according to Insurance and Pension Denmark (IPD). At the end of 2025, green investments had grown to DKr478 billion, the industry association said, with 44 percent of the investments in Denmark. A shareholder proposal has renewed calls for Starbucks to separate its board chair and CEO positions. Filed by SOC Investment Group and United Church Funds,...

September 3, 2026
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August 2026
27Aug

South Africa’s R2.7 trillion GEPF faces growing ESG data and governance test as pension capital comes under scrutiny

South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), the country’s largest public-sector pension fund and one of the continent’s biggest pools of institutional capital, is facing a broader governance challenge over how environmental, social and governance (ESG) information is assessed, verified and incorporated into investment decisions. With the fund holding more than R2.69 trillion in assets and more than 1.2 million active members, the quality of ESG analysis applied across its investment portfolio has implications well beyond the retirement savings...

August 27, 2026
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June 2026
30Jun

Heatwaves could ruin your pension, according to UK’s Pensions Professionals

Heatwaves are jeopardising retirement as extreme weather events threaten investment returns, the pensions industry has warned. Climate change is becoming a major risk for trillions of pounds in pension savings as increasingly unpredictable weather damages assets, disrupts supply chains and hits productivity, according to a report by the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP). Calum Cooper, the president of the SPP, said: "Put simply, you can't separate the future of pensions from the future of the economy. And you cannot separate the...

June 30, 2026
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12Jun

Ambition Under Pressure: Analytical Leadership vs. Strategic Hesitation

By Amy Owens The report, Ambition Under Pressure: Analytical Leadership vs. Strategic Hesitation, examines what the climate risk strategy of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), manager of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, reveals about the way financial markets are pricing climate risk. It finds that NBIM has built one of the most advanced climate and nature risk frameworks among global asset owners. Its internal modelling goes beyond many market-standard tools, enabling the fund to assess systemic physical climate risk, climate-nature interdependencies...

June 12, 2026
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10Jun

Norway’s oil fund shows gap between climate risk insight and action

Norway’s oil fund, NBIM, has not applied its framework for measuring climate and nature risk into moving away from fossil fuels, a report from Carbon Tracker finds. The mismatch is due to a mandate limit, political expectations, and an increasingly uncertain global climate policy environment. The findings reveal the limits of voluntary investor action. Norway’s oil fund (NBIM) has developed one of the most advanced frameworks for measuring climate and nature risk, but it has yet to apply those...

June 10, 2026
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03Jun

Canada. Pension funds creating social infrastructure, but measurement of impact is required: ICPM

Pension funds can enhance society in a way that doesn’t have to interfere with their fiduciary integrity and financial sustainability, according to a new report from the International Centre for Pension Management. After working on a social infrastructure paper and a roundtable discussion, what at first seemed as a one-and-done presentation became an international working group at the ICPM, according to Gareth Gibbins, a pension and policy expert who co-authored the report and is a member of the working group. Social...

June 3, 2026
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April 2026
22Apr

Informe de Sostenibilidad 2025

Por XXI Banorte  El Informe de Sostenibilidad 2025 de Afore XXI Banorte es el vehículo apropiado para dar a conocer de manera voluntaria los impactos derivados de sus operaciones y de sus inversiones, en el medio ambiente, la sociedad y la economía, asi como la gestión de riesgos y oportunidades climáticas desde su rol como Administradora e inversionista. El Informe comprende la presentación de información del l de enero al 31 de diciembre de 2025 y se compone de 11 secciones....

April 22, 2026
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20Apr

Japan pension fund GPIF urges stronger stewardship to boost long-term returns

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) said on Friday it will step up expectations for external asset managers to strengthen stewardship activities, including deeper corporate engagement, as part of efforts to enhance long-term investment returns. Stewardship — including environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations — would be pursued from the perspective of improving long-term returns, said the world’s largest pension fund, with about US$1.8 trillion in assets under management, in its 2025/2026 stewardship activities report, which outlined its approach for the five-year period through March...

April 20, 2026
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