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Global pension assets record largest annual decline since the Global Financial Crisis

After more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, last year global pension assets recorded their largest fall since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, according to the Thinking Ahead Institute’s latest Global Pension Assets Study. It shows that global pension assets now stand at USD47.9 trillion, a fall of 16.7 per cent in a year driven largely by a correction in both fixed income and equity markets.

AP2 signs up BTON Financial 

BTON Financial, a data-driven, automated trading platform that is designed to help asset managers optimise their workflow and achieve better outcomes, has announced Andra AP-fonden (AP2), one of northern Europe’s largest pension funds, has decided to use BTON Financial to improve its trading performance.

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Influential Schroders’ investor survey reveals rapid rise in impact investing

The firm’s research – which analysed the investment perspectives of 770 institutional investors, who are collectively responsible for USD27.5 trillion in assets and from 28 locations around the world – shows that almost half of these leading investors now have a preference for sustainable investments focused on impact.

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