Willis Towers Watson – the global advisory behemoth with assets under advisory of $6 billion in private equity investments – has described its process of manager selection with Private Equity Wire as it looks to ramp up its relationship with PE firms who have embraced the latest in ESG standards.
Pensions should change the de-risking strategies they’ve pursued since the 2008 financial crisis to embrace a wider array of investments, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset-management unit said in a report.
Defined benefit plan sponsors have positive views of the direction interest rates will take and of equity markets, but they remain wary of how a continued pandemic will impact their plans.
New York’s $268 billion state pension fund on Thursday became the latest to restrict its holdings in Unilever Plc in response to sales limits imposed by the company’s Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.