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You won't want to miss this discussion on which investment strategies work best for #realworld change and how to actually measure the impact of investments. Pensions for Purpose have gathered a group of experts to discuss this important topic, so all you need to do is ✎Pencil in 22nd May and register below👇 Priya Jassal EY-Parthenon

🗓️ Explore place-based impact reporting at Pensions for Purpose's Place-Based Impact Investing Forum all-stakeholder online event at 2 pm on 8 November, with Andrew Hall from Greater Manchester Pension Fund, Sarah Forster from The Good Economy and Mark Hall from the Impact Investing Institute The panel will discuss GMPF's recently published review and report on the impact performance of its local investment portfolios - prepared by The Good Economy. As the first UK pension fund to have gone through this process, register to discover the report's implications for the UK pension fund market. Book your place now. #PBIIForum #PBII #PlaceBased #ImpactInvesting #PensionFunds #LocalInvestment #ImpactPerformance

Join us next Wednesday 3 July 10am for the corporate perspective on how an Outsourced Chief Investment (OCIO) could work for your pension scheme. https://lnkd.in/dKrpcYc8 Growing regulatory burdens, combined with heightened market volatility is prompting complete re-evaluation of pension fund operating models. OCIO allows corporates greater ease in measuring outcomes and streamlines oversight, allowing focus on decisions and conversations which matter. The 30-minute session will be hosted by John Harney from Aon's Wealth Solutions Corporate Pensions Consulting team. Our corporate investment experts, Jennifer O'Neill, CFA and William Parry, will be: 💡discussing how OCIO works in practice, 💡sharing how our clients have successfully adopted this model, and 💡exploring how you as a sponsor can set an appropriate operating model for your pension scheme, aligned with your priorities. #investments #pensions #betterdecisions #OCIO #corporates #sponsors

Want to hear more about how we think about OCIO? And, importantly, how it's worked in practice to help our clients and how it could work for you.. Please do join us next week to hear more as Jennifer O'Neill, CFA, John Harney and I chat through some of this in a targeted 30 min chat (keeping it targeted to help busy people free up their time, much like the solution 😀)

For pension funds and other institutional investors, the concept of a just transition is becoming increasingly important. While there are plenty of challenges ahead, there are also opportunities to make a real difference, writes Maha Khan Phillips, in the first in a series of articles from an upcoming special report, 'Impact Investing and the Just Transition', a collaboration between Impact Investor and our sister publications Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) and IPE Real Assets. #impactinvesting #justtransition #netzero #energytransition https://lnkd.in/e7uugJ7J

One key player in the sustainability transition are European pensions, which collectively control $3.5 trillion in assets. Despite growing interest, a culture of caution persists among pensions when it comes to adoption of impact investing, leading to missed opportunities to fulfill both financial and impact objectives. BlueMark raised an important topic in allocation strategies of the institutional investors https://lnkd.in/gNyZq4Dh #impactinvesting

This is essential research for pension funds as they up their exposure in P.E. and alternatives to try to meet their return targets. Simple aside, the first asset allocation mistake many plans make with alternatives is treating hedge funds as a separate asset class and private RE as a diversifier. They are not.

Earlier today The Society of Pension Professionals published a helpful paper on ESG requirements for pension trustees. Thanks to Environmental Finance, Responsible Investor, KnowESG, Actuarial Post, Corporate Adviser, IFA Magazine, Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE), PensionsAge, Professional Pensions, The National Law Review and others for highlighting what we hope will play a useful role in raising awareness and understanding in this vitally important area. The report is free and available to all at: https://lnkd.in/ewsQfiQg #pensions #pension #ESG #climatechange #netzero #climatereporting #pensiontrustees #environment #governance

Many schemes are currently finalising their annual #TCFD reports. Pension scheme trustees will be looking at not only their carbon emissions-based metrics but also trying to assess and understand their Portfolio Alignment metrics.    One of the key findings from our latest Sustainable Investment Survey is that the asset management industry still has a long way to go in terms of providing comparable Portfolio Alignment metrics. Trustees want to see material improvements in this area, and we are engaging with managers to encourage them to deliver that. While we have run the survey for internal purposes for a decade, the public version is now in its 6th year and we are very proud that Redington's Sustainable Investment Survey has grown into one of the key publications in the UK pensions investment industry - covering over 280 strategies across 127 asset managers - representing over £39 trillion in assets from 13 countries.🌍🌿   A significant amount of work goes into it and, as far as we are aware, it is the largest annual sustainable investment survey of any UK investment consultant. We use the raw data to do trend analysis - some of which you can read about in our report - and to help us decide where to look when selecting the best managers for our clients. If you would like to know more about our insights, please get in touch. 👉 The full survey can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eXhvW_kM #AssetManagers #SustainableInvestmentSurvey #ClimateChange

GEPF PEO Musa Mabesa FCCA shares his views on the importance of intentional investing for socio-economic transformation. Watch as he outlines GEPF's commitment to driving real change in #AssetManagement sector. #YourInvestmentYourFuture