PGGM

FRANCE/NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund manager PGGM is researching ways it can transfer longevity risk off its balance sheet, managing director Erik Goris said.

NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension assets managed by external managers soared by 21% in the year ended March 31 to €922bn ($1.3trn), a report by consultancy Bureau Bosch shows.

NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund administrator PGGM has sold out of mining company Vedanta Resources over human rights concerns.

US/NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund manager PGGM has formed a joint venture with Inland Real Estate Corp. that will invest US$270m in the US retail market.

NETHERLANDS/UK - Dutch pension fund and asset manager PGGM has allocated €75m (US$89.8m) to a UK property fund run by Standard Life.

The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors Group...

EUROPE - The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors...

In recent years microfinance has steadily risen in significance. However, it is not on everyone's radar and questions remain about its sustainability, as Alison Swersky reports

UK/NETHERLANDS - Royal Bank of Scotland is nearing a deal to sell its European private equity portfolio to Alpinvest, a Dutch private equity fund owned by pension investors APG and PGGM, a person close to matter said.

US - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) will begin debating this week maiden investments in microfinance.