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Amundi, Axa urge boardroom pay cuts for climate laggards
Link remuneration to carbon-emission goals and companies will get serious, say large investors
APG hires in-house weatherman to interpret climate data
Europe’s wettest summer in a century prompts asset managers to calculate flood risk for real estate
How to trade like the investor who made $1bn in a day
Mark Spitznagel won’t reveal how he made a 4,144% return, but he does discard plenty of rival trades
40% of insurers fail to specify climate as a key risk – LCP
Despite regulators’ urging, many UK and Irish insurers omit climate from risk statements, says report
After Archegos, prime brokers put the squeeze on hedge funds
Hedge funds are told they will need to pay more margin, more frequently, to back their trades
Archegos report details margin failings at Credit Suisse
Dynamic margining and a $150,000 software fix for ‘bullet swaps’ could have saved the bank $3 billion
Green push from SEC could trigger another ‘Enron’, says Peirce
SEC commissioner warns that mandating ESG disclosure standards would distort capital flows
JP Morgan warns hedge funds to expect intraday margin calls
US bank may demand variation margin ‘up to seven’ times a day after Archegos default
Aegon turns its back on pension deals in its home market
The Netherlands is Europe’s second-biggest pension market, but Aegon made little money from deals
The race to offload the world’s biggest pool of assets
Specialist insurers on both sides of the Atlantic expect a bumper post-Covid second half of 2021
Early deaths could kill defined benefit pension shortfalls
Covid-19 will only worsen a trend in life expectancy that was already well underway
Hedges are in short supply as inflation quickens
UK pension funds want to hedge against rising prices, but the government is not issuing enough bonds
Do investors want Barclays to keep financing fossil fuels?
Barclays presented SSGA with an ‘ambitious’ climate plan, but neither firm will say how it works
FCA tells asset managers to challenge companies on climate
A few serious attempts to change behaviour beats lots of shallow attempts, says UBS’s investing arm