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PRI in Person

Pizza and diversity: How funds move dial

Empowering long-term influential asset owners to invest responsibly is the key to hastening take-up in responsible investment. Delegates heard how some leading asset owners are doing this through their diversity and ESG practices.

Sarah RundellSeptember 11, 2019

Sustainability

Climate disclosure a bumpy road

Implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures is challenging, fortunately some investors are paving the way, a PRI climate conference heard.

Sarah RundellDecember 3, 2018

Investor Profile

UK’s BTPS forges independent identity

Since splitting from its former inhouse manager, Hermes, the £50 billion British Telecom Pension Scheme has set about redefining itself. With a self-reliance borne of technology, the fund has brought portfolios and functions inhouse and started a bigger push into mature infrastructure.

Sarah RundellNovember 14, 2018

Asset Classes

AP1 to up leverage, factor exposure

AP1 has its sights on broader, more efficient diversification, with plans to intensify its focus on derivatives and shake up its approach to hedge funds. We spoke to CIO, Mikael Angberg.

Sarah RundellNovember 2, 2017

FIS INSEAD 2017

Holistic returns, not poker

Hermes chief executive tells fiduciary investors that success should include helping create a sustainable world; otherwise, they’d be better off investing people’s money in top poker players.

Amanda WhiteApril 5, 2017

FIS Chicago 2015

Empowering asset owners

Head of the global union movement, Sharan Burrow, has called on asset owners to “stop talking about constraints on fiduciary duty” and take the lead on the transition to a green economy. Burrow was part of a panel at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Chicago that told delegates the next wave of stewardship is not […]

Amanda WhiteNovember 4, 2015