Before the redraft of Regulation 28, the amount of capital SA pension funds could allocate to private equity was ill-defined. This was largely because regulators didn’t fully acknowledge the importance…
Now that Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act allows pension funds to invest 10% of their portfolio in private equity, it is worth considering what this asset class has…
The 'old school' approach to setting a pension fund’s investment strategy has usually been to set a target return and then structure the assets to try to match the actual…
You don’t have to spend a great deal of time researching global pension issues to establish that threats like longevity and adverse equity and interest rate environments have contributed to…
Learn the regulatory frameworks on integrating ESG into investments Since 2007, PF130 has actually included sections on responsible investing and clearly states: “Funds should include a policy on socially responsible…
“We are living off the Earth’s capital - we need to live off the interest.” Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program The preamble of the new…
If you had the power to improve your situation just by raising a hand, would you nonetheless refuse to exercise this power no matter how bad things are, no matter…
IFC-SinCo reports US$125 billion in Sustainable Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has released the most comprehensive study to date of Sustainable Investment (SI)…
RisCura launches new LDI Monitoring Service RisCura has launched a monthly monitoring service that uses the principles of liability-driven investment (LDI) to detail how the assets of a defined benefit…
