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  • "We are creating a bad climate premium," warns FRR director

    27 April 2022

    Bad assets are going to bad asset owners, says executive at €1.8trn fund

  • FRR tightens coal exclusion criteria

    22 February 2019

    France’s Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has tightened the criteria it uses to exclude coal from its investments.

  • Climate and SDGs to be focus of French pension fund's new SRI strategy

    28 May 2018

    Climate change is “the biggest risk” to the €36.4 billion ($44 billion) FRR pension fund in coming years, Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr, chief investment officer of the pension fund, tells Michael Hurley.

  • FRR invites proposals to manage €1.7bn ESG mandates

    30 April 2018

    France’s Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has called for submissions to manage two environmental, social and governance (ESG)-themed portfolios worth a combined €1.7 billion ($2 billion).

  • FRR awards €5 billion ESG mandates

    24 January 2017

    French pension fund Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has selected three asset managers to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into its €5 billion ($5.4 bllion) socially responsible equity strategy.

  • MSCI launches low-carbon indexes

    16 September 2014

    MSCI has launched a set of low-carbon indexes, which have won the backing of major investors the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) and Amundi.