RI.com: Sweden’s AP1 to raise allocation to ‘real assets’ to combat climate change
The Swedish Fund AP1 has indicated it will shift its portfolio towards “real assets” – property, farmland, timber and infrastructure – to try to deal with the investment implications of climate change.
It is taking on board the recommendations of the groundbreaking report from consulting firm Mercer,Climate Change Scenarios – Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, that was released earlier this year. AP1 was one of 14 international institutional investors to participate in the project.
“The findings in the climate report have strengthened the Fund’s conviction in the necessity of raising the share of real assets in the portfolio, for example through investments in real estate, agricultural land, timberland and infrastructure,” AP1 says in its new first-half report.
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