Yolanda Blanch, chair of Spain’s largest corporate pension fund Pensions Caixa 30, explains the importance of fostering an atmosphere of collaboration, communication and trust in pension fund management.
APG Asset Management, the largest pension fund provider in Europe, considers the arguments for investing more in defence alongside positioning the portfolio for more impact and infrastructure investment.
CIO Andrew Moreno charts the growth of $60 billion SURA Mexico, which sits on 20 limited partner advisory committees and has helped steer government policies. It is opening the door to strategies that would normally be out of reach for Mexican savers, some of whom only have $5000 in savings.
Brazil's high interest rates mean the nation's oldest pension fund, Previ, has put profitability before diversification for years. CIO Claudio Goncalves is determined to change that, and is about to green light new allocations to US equity.
In the last seven years, the private markets allocation at the UK’s Brunel Pension Partnership has grown to £8 billion ($10.7 billion). The fund's head of private markets Richard Fanshawe charts that growth but warns of a dearth of opportunity in the UK and uncertainties in the transition ahead.
Norway's NBIM is looking to allocate several mandates to single-country and regional long/short equity strategies in Australia, Japan, Europe, and the US. Top1000funds.com examines the growing investor interest in these strategies as market volatility and stock dispersion create fresh opportunities for active managers.
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