November 2022
15Nov

El premio Nobel, Paul Krugman y otros expertos celebrarán los 25 años del sistema de pensiones Mexicano en el Encuentro Amafore 2022

Este 16 y 17 de Noviembre de 2022 se llevará a cabo el encuentro Amafore 2022 en el Centro Citibanamex, con conferencias magistrales por el premio Nobel de Economía 2008, Paul Krugman; la historiadora y experta en geopolítica, premio Pulitzer 2004, Anne Applebaum; el politólogo, escritor y profesor de la Universidad de Stanford, Francis Fukuyama; y el Director de Alianzas Estratégicas y Contenidos de América Móvil, Arturo Elías Ayub. También contará con conferencias principales por el director de funciones estratégicas...

November 15, 2022
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10Nov

Nordic pension funds want to increase climate investments in emerging markets and developing economies

At COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the Climate Investment Coalition (CIC), in collaboration with the Nordic Council of Ministers, presented key investor recommendations to bridge the climate finance and investment gap by 2030 towards emerging markets and developing economies. This was made alongside an overview of Nordic pension fund progress within climate and clean energy investments in 2022. Despite financial challenges and a volatile economic environment, the first wave of pension fund reporting in 2022 indicates that the Nordic pension...

November 10, 2022
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08Nov

US. Climate investors eye midterms with caution

After an active year of federal policy in favor of climate technology, investors are preparing to go it alone should the midterm results change the tone in Washington. Why it matters: Private investors may have to step up and fund potentially risky, capital-intensive projects like battery-manufacturing plants or grid-resilience projects should federal funds and incentives be pulled back or stopped altogether. Context: Several Republican candidates in state and federal races have indicated that ESG initiatives, particularly from large asset managers running...

November 8, 2022
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08Nov

Japan’s GPIF reports 0.88% decline for latest quarter

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, Tokyo, said its portfolio ended the latest quarter with ¥192.1 trillion ($1.33 trillion) in assets, down 0.88%, or $11.6 billion, from the prior quarter. In a statement posted on GPIF's website Friday, Masataka Miyazono, the pension fund's president, said rate hikes in the U.S. and Europe to contain inflationary pressures stoked concerns of recession, depressing stock prices at home and abroad. But the dollar's continued gains vs. the yen during the quarter ended Sept. 30, to...

November 8, 2022
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04Nov

Pension funds can influence a major shift in ESG investing

Year after year, parties to the UN Climate Change Conference make pledges to mend their ways in key focus areas such as carbon emissions. The centrality of finance as the catalyst for change in climate matters has been reiterated. As such, pension funds can loop in to make a change and simultaneously derive satisfactory value for their members. Possibly the largest mobiliser of private finance globally, pension funds are a potential superpower in the climate change battle. With Kenya’s assets...

November 4, 2022
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October 2022
28Oct

US. Faculty Wants Pensions Out of Fossil Fuels

Student activists have been demanding that higher education institutions divest their endowments from fossil fuel companies for over a decade. Now, as more institutions move toward sustainable investment, a group of faculty is calling on its pension fund to go green. About 300 clients of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America–College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA), which hundreds of higher education institutions use to invest faculty members’ pensions, are calling on the fund to divest from companies they say...

October 28, 2022
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20Oct

How Sustainable Investing Can Impact Climate Change

Zach Stein, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Collective, a climate change-focused online investment advisor, talks about the three ways sustainable investing can make a positive impact on climate change, as well as the trends shaping the climate tech space. Stein also shares what more investment in climate-focused companies will lead to and the top companies investors may want to keep an eye on. What is the most important issue facing the world today? Climate change is the single most...

October 20, 2022
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11Oct

Impact funds grow 40% over last two years, hitting $1 trillion

Impact investing has soared 40% over the past two years, according to a fresh analysis, as more money flows into strategies that actively seek to save the planet and its people. Investor allocations to impact investing, which targets specific environmental, social or governance outcomes instead of just screening for ESG risks, now stands at more than $1 trillion, according to the Global Impact Investing Network. That growth feeds into a maelstrom of discordant views around ESG that have plunged the once...

October 11, 2022
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11Oct

Iceland, Netherlands and Denmark have the best pensions in the world in 2022

Today, Mercer and the CFA Institute released its 14th annual Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index (MCGPI). Iceland’s retirement income system has once again topped the list, with The Netherlands and Denmark retaining second and third places respectively in the rankings. As more employers have stepped away from defined benefit (DB) plans, the study also investigates the challenges and opportunities with the global shift towards defined contribution (DC) plans where individuals bear increased financial responsibility. The MCGPI is a comprehensive...

October 11, 2022
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06Oct

UK. Green pensions increasingly important to workers

Workers are favouring companies that offer green pension plans, according to research from Scottish Widows. Almost a quarter (25%) of employees named green pensions as one of the top benefits they would expect from a new employer. Nearly three quarters (72%) of employees said it was important for their company to invest their savings sustainably, demonstrating a commitment to taking environmental and social issues seriously. Despite the demand from workers, the report showed 34% of employers don't currently offer a sustainable pension...

October 6, 2022
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