Asset owner news roundup, Sep 4

Sep 3, 2018

Asian pensions' assets surge; Local Government Super awards ESG bond mandate; FWD buys HSBC's stake in Malaysia JV; Korea Post looks to build infra, hedge fund assets; Life Insurance Corp of India mulls purchase of IDBI and more.

ASIA Seven Asian pension funds now feature in Willis Towers Watson's latest list of the 20 biggest globally, after India’s Employees’ Provident Fund moved up two spots from the previous year to 19th. Thee seven funds' combined assets under management (AUM) accounted for $3.3 trillion, surging by 25.6% during 2017 and representing 44.3% of assets in the top 20. In the 300-strong list, the AUM of all Asia-Pacific pension funds (49) increased by 20% to almost $5 trillion in 2017, o…

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