Christopher Marchant

The comments were made at the World Pension Summit, hosted in The Hague, Netherlands, at a panel discussion on the societal role of pension funds.

Guillermo Zamarripa was speaking on the first day of Pensions & Investments‘ WorldPensionSummit during a series of discussions centered around emerging markets and “resilience in the age of uncertainty.”

Boyang Liu has been appointed to a newly created role as head of systematic solutions, leading investment strategy, research, index and systematic solutions design.

Based in London, Laura Coady will oversee Blackstone credit and insurance’s CLO activity globally, including CLO formation and investing.

The Australian sovereign wealth fund also had a 10-year annualized return of 8.3%, exceeding its target of 7%.

In the third quarter of 2025, there were net outflows of €7.1 billion ($8.2 billion) from Article 9 funds in the European Union.

As U.K. CEO, Stephen Yeats will be responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of the entity.

Equity commitments from institutional investors include cornerstone investor the Retail Employees Superannuation Trust, Sydney.

NEST became a 10% shareholder in the holding company of IFM in February.

The retirement income systems of the Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, and Israel also retained their A grade in 2025.

Swa Wu has been appointed as head of Asia ex-Japan investment specialists within the global Fixed income, currency and commodities department at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

In this role, Carpenter will lead the commercial development of Canada Life’s bulk annuities business.

Most recently, Mourad was head of MENA equities at Lazard Asset Management in Dubai.

As chief technology officer of the company since 2021, Timothée Consigny will now also lead the integration of GenAI capabilities within the wider H2O AM group.

Currently, European pension funds allocate less than 0.1% of their assets towards venture capital, the report claimed.

The selection of M&G was made by Aegon Asset Management, which acts as fiduciary manager for KPN.

Each fund must invest a minimum of 80% of its commitments in companies headquartered in France.

The British Business Bank, which, like WYPF, was an anchor investor in the first Salica growth fund, also invested a further £30 million into the second fund.

Takahiro Kobayashi will replace Yoshio Hishida, the firm’s president and CEO since 2018.

Both Germany and the Netherlands have seen recent large pension risk transfer deals, despite litigation in the U.S.