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29JanJanuary 29, 2026

US. South Dakota Bill Eyes Bitcoin for State Funds

This is a sign of how digital assets are edging closer to mainstream finance in the United States. This debate offers a clear window into how Bitcoin is starting to look less like a fringe bet and more like a strategic reserve asset at the state level. What the South Dakota Bill Actually Does The new proposal in South Dakota would allow the State Investment Council to allocate up to 10% of eligible public funds into Bitcoin, including pensions, trusts, and endowments that together...

January 29, 2026

NewsCrypto, Investment, US

28JanJanuary 28, 2026

Canadian pensions diverging in climate approach: report

An advocacy group says there’s an increasing divergence on how big public pensions in Canada are approaching climate action. The group, called Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, says in its annual ranking that La Caisse is showing the best results yet while CPPIB is falling behind. Shift says it lowered CPPIB’s ranking because the pension giant removed its stated net-zero goal, has a lack of clarity on a climate strategy and continues to invest in fossil fuels. CPPIB, which...

January 28, 2026

NewsCanada, Climate crisis, Investment

27JanJanuary 27, 2026

Why Latin America funds are on a hot streak

Brazil’s stock market index, the Ibovespa, rose by 8.5% last week, taking its month-to-date gain to 11% and extending the momentum built up over the course of last year. After a difficult 2024, when it fell by 10%, the Brazilian market recovered strongly in 2025. Global interest rates had started to ease and investors were turning back towards emerging markets in search of higher returns. The index ended the year up 34%. Overseas investors would have seen even larger gains as Brazil’s...

January 27, 2026

NewsInvestment, Latin America

26JanJanuary 26, 2026

Colombian Pension Manager Plans Bitcoin Exposure Fund

AFP Protección, a private pension and severance fund manager in Colombia, is preparing to launch a fund with exposure to bitcoin. The plan was confirmed by company president Juan David Correa in an interview. How access will work Participation will be offered through a personalized advisory process. That process will assess an investor’s risk profile. Only clients who meet the criteria will be able to allocate a percentage of their portfolio to bitcoin. A second major pension firm to add bitcoin Protección’s move follows a similar...

January 26, 2026

NewsColombia, Cryptocurrencies, Investment

23JanJanuary 23, 2026

Decoding Pension Funds: Sustainability Indicators for Annual Report Analysis

By Leticia Martins Medeiros, Clea Beatriz Macagnan & Rosane Maria Seibert Pension funds’ growth highlights the need to emphasize fiduciary duty and investment sustainability, considering the current and future participants’ interests (priority stakeholders) and systemic risk reduction (environmental, social, economic, and governance effects). Therefore, this study builds sustainability indicators based on the interests of pension fund stakeholders. The methodology comprised five stages: the first consisted of analyzing Annual Information Reports to create a preliminary list of indicators; the second involved...

January 23, 2026

Books, Books, Reports, Sustainability2025, Investment, Pension Management, Sustainability

23JanJanuary 23, 2026

Global Pension Assets Study – 2025

By Thinking Ahead Institute The Global Pension Assets Study estimates global pension fund assets across 22 major pension markets (the P22). These geographies now stand at US$58.5 trillion in pension assets and account for 68% of the GDP of these economies. The study, conducted by WTW and the Thinking Ahead Institute since the 1990s, includes an analysis of the seven largest markets (the P7): Australia, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and the US, which comprise 91% of total pension assets. Pension...

January 23, 2026

Books, Books, Investment, Reports2025, Corporate Governance, Investment, Pension Management

23JanJanuary 23, 2026

Canada Pension Plan’s investment arm criticized over funding for Elon Musk’s xAI, maker of Grok

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is facing criticism for having provided $300 million US for the funding of infrastructure for Elon Musk's xAI, the company behind the controversial Grok artificial intelligence chatbot tool. Musk's xAI has been at the centre of controversy in recent months, after it was discovered that Grok made it possible for people to create sexualized and nonconsensual images of others — including minors. Amid widespread backlash, xAI put some restrictions in place on the...

January 23, 2026

NewsAI, Canada, Investment

22JanJanuary 22, 2026

Exposure to US assets ‘increasingly uncomfortable’ for pension trustees

UK pension schemes’ exposure to US assets has become an “increasingly uncomfortable contradiction” for trustees, Isio chief investment officer, Barry Jones, has said. In a statement marking the anniversary of President, Donald Trump’s, second inauguration, Jones noted that the US market represented the majority of global equity market opportunity and continued to deliver strong returns. However, aspects of the political and regulatory direction of the US administration over the past year were sitting uneasily with the environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...

January 22, 2026

NewsInvestment, US

20JanJanuary 20, 2026

How Trump’s Greenland tariffs will hit investments and pensions – and what to do

Investors and pension savers are worried about the impact that tariffs could have on their money Stock markets across the globe have dipped after Donald Trump said he would charge tariffs on multiple European countries including the UK until a deal is reached for Washington to purchase Greenland from Denmark. The US President said he would impose a 10 per cent tariff “on any and all goods” sent to the USA from 1 February, increasing to 25 per cent from 1...

January 20, 2026

NewsGreenland, Investment, US

19JanJanuary 19, 2026

Swiss Life Holding AG: How a 165-Year Incumbent Is Rebuilding Wealth and Retirement for a Volatile Age

The New Urgency of Swiss Life Holding AG Retirement planning used to be boring. Then zero interest rates, inflation spikes, housing crises, and fragmented work lives turned it into a high?stakes puzzle that most people are failing to solve. In Europe, where demographic aging is accelerating and public pension systems are under strain, that puzzle is now an existential problem for households and a structural challenge for governments. Swiss Life Holding AG sits right at the center of that storm. Officially,...

January 19, 2026

NewsInvestment, Switzerland

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