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TRS invests in PE, eyes opportunistic real estate

The $30 billion Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) will commit up to $1.2 billion to private equity, and will focus on opportunistic investments in real estate including emerging manager initiatives, as it aims to reach its new long-term allocations in those sectors by year end.
Amanda WhiteSeptember 23, 2009
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Canadian funds delve into performance drivers

Four of Canada’s pension funds have established a professorship in pension management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto with initial research to focus on a better understanding of the drivers of pension fund performance using the global databases of CEM Benchmarking.
Amanda WhiteSeptember 23, 2009
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HOOPP survives the crisis through ALM

The experience of the C$26.7 billion ($25 billion) Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) is testament to the success of asset-liability driven investing. Amanda White spoke with chief executive, John Crocker, about how matching assets with liabilities led to an underweighting in equities and a subsequent (relative) survival of the global economic crisis.
Amanda WhiteSeptember 22, 2009
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Quant modelling in private equity a sign of maturity

Managing director of Adveq, Peter Laib, believes private equity fund-of-fund portfolios need more analytical oversight and that diversification should be driven by the timing of capital in the market, not the number of funds. He spoke with Amanda White about the next phase of private equity as an asset class.
Amanda WhiteSeptember 16, 2009
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