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10JunJune 10, 2026

UK. Smart Pension surpasses £10bn AUM

Smart Pension has surpassed £10bn in assets under management (AUM), meeting the government’s first ‘scale test’ ahead of the 2030 timeframe. The pension provider manages the pensions of two million members and 100,000 employers across the UK, and described the £10bn AUM mark as a “major milestone”. It is on track to meet the future mandatory scale thresholds, as set out in the Pension Schemes Act, having now surpassed the government’s initial £10bn AUM threshold ahead of the 2030 deadline and...

June 10, 2026

NewsPension Management, UK

10JunJune 10, 2026

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

NewsESG, Investment, Norway, Pension Management

08JunJune 8, 2026

Blue Owl, Ares Court Mexico’s $500 Billion Pension Fund Windfall

In Mexico City, the executives have arrived from the likes of Blue Owl Capital Inc., Ares Management Corp. and Golub Capital, all seeking a rare prize: a large pot of untapped money. Firms that haven’t made the journey may already have fallen behind. Mexican pension funds, known as Afores, represent a $500 billion opportunity for the biggest alternatives firms. They’re ballooning in size thanks to reforms that increased how much money is contributed to workers’ accounts, while other rule changes have...

June 8, 2026

News2026, Investment, Mexico, Pension Management

02JunJune 2, 2026

Pension funds manage trillions and most still underestimate their social role: report

Pension funds collectively manage more than US$56tn in assets, serve hundreds of millions of members worldwide, and, according to a new report, most still do not recognize the full scope of what they already do. The International Centre for Pension Management released Social Infrastructure Blueprint: A Roadmap for Pension Funds on June 1, arguing that pension funds function as social infrastructure providers whether they acknowledge it or not. The report said failing to recognise that role carries real institutional risk. Gibbins said aging populations and rising inequality...

June 2, 2026

NewsCorporate Governance, Investment, Pension Management

02JunJune 2, 2026

US. Company Pension Funds Stuffed With Bonds Ease Up on Debt Buying

A key source of demand for corporate bonds may be fading now that managers of company pension funds have more than enough money on hand to pay their retirees. Company-sponsored plans that had struggled in past years to keep up with their obligations in an era of low interest rates have gotten a boost from a decade of strong equity returns. Many plowed those gains into bonds in more recent years as yields rose. The trade allowed managers to lock...

June 2, 2026

NewsPension Management, US

29MayMay 29, 2026

Agency Costs Beyond Corporations: Evidence from Pension Funds

By Clemens Böhlen This paper examines the role of agency costs in pension fund performance. Grounded in corporate agency theory, it exploits institutional variation in a unique dataset on the Swiss pension system to assess how differences in monitoring incentives affect investment outcomes. Specifically, I examine the role of the sponsoring company and show that multi-employer funds underperform institutionally comparable single-employer funds by 25-31 basis points per year, in line with weaker governance incentives. Consistent with corporate agency theory, these...

May 29, 2026

Articles, Pension Management2026, Pension Management, supervision, Switzerland

27MayMay 27, 2026

Korea pension giant NPS bolsters operating system to manage risk amid market volatility

Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is strengthening its operating system to better manage portfolio risk amid uncertainty in global markets, according to Won Joo Seo, executive fund director and chief investment officer of the pension giant. He said that even though the pension fund achieved a “good” record 18.82% investment return last year, it remains vigilant over rising volatility in Korean and international markets. “Global market uncertainty and transformation are becoming more complex and structural. Competition among countries in security, industrial policy...

May 27, 2026

Newskorea, Operations, Pension Management, Pension Management Korea, Technology

22MayMay 22, 2026

Canadian pension fund crosses $793 billion as it weathers geopolitical storm

Canada's retirement giant posts 7.8% return for fiscal 2026, beating long-term sustainability targets as contribution rate cut looms. Canada's largest pension fund closed its fiscal year with net assets of $793.3 billion, adding nearly $79 billion over the course of twelve months despite navigating a turbulent global environment defined by currency volatility, shifting central bank expectations and a late-year equity selloff driven by Middle East conflict. CPP Investments ended the fiscal year on March 31, 2026, up from $714.4 billion a...

May 22, 2026

NewsCanada, Investment, Pension Management

15MayMay 15, 2026

Analysis of climate risk reporting across UK pension schemes

By XPS Group 2025 has shown that climate change is no longer a distant risk. It's a force that's already shaping economies, societies and investment markets. While government policy remains fragmented, UK pension schemes remain exposed to the risks of worsening climate outcomes, and to opportunities that arise from a faster transition to a green economy. Our fourth annual Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) review examines how 49 UK pension schemes, representing £420bn in assets, are addressing climate change...

May 15, 2026

Books, Books, Investment, Reports2026, Climate crisis, Investment, Pension Management, Pension Reform

15MayMay 15, 2026

Private Climate Governance of Finance: “Net Zero” Prospects and Politics

By Cynthia A. Williams In 2021, as part of the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (“GFANZ”) was announced. This Alliance of banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, among other financial institutions, with more than $130 trillion of assets under management when announced, was based on a pledge by the participating companies to work towards net-zero status in their businesses by 2050 or sooner. Led by former UK Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who is now the U.N.’s Special Envoy...

May 15, 2026

Articles, Investment2026, Climate crisis, Corporate Governance, Investment, Pension Management

June 2026

UK. Smart Pension surpasses £10bn AUM

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

Blue Owl, Ares Court Mexico’s $500 Billion Pension Fund Windfall

Pension funds manage trillions and most still underestimate their social role: report

US. Company Pension Funds Stuffed With Bonds Ease Up on Debt Buying

May 2026

Agency Costs Beyond Corporations: Evidence from Pension Funds

Korea pension giant NPS bolsters operating system to manage risk amid market volatility

Canadian pension fund crosses $793 billion as it weathers geopolitical storm

Analysis of climate risk reporting across UK pension schemes

Private Climate Governance of Finance: “Net Zero” Prospects and Politics