Denmark's ATP is awaiting a review that will report on the strength of its investment strategy, and suggest how to simplify reporting. But additional transparency must not hurt the future returns for members, warns Allan Japhetson, head of investment strategy at ATP.
The 2022 annual CIO Sentiment Survey, a collaboration between Top1000funds.com and CaseyQuirk, finds asset owners most concerned about equity valuations and inflation. After three years of fee rises, asset owners are paying less for investments while CIOs in 2022 are also working with a smaller manager roster.
Incorporating uncertainty into the asset allocation process is a complicated but essential ingredient of building portfolio resilience, something investors are valuing more than ever in an environment where inflation, geopolitical and climate risks dominate. GIC and BlackRock have both developed asset allocation frameworks that incorporate investors’ aversion for uncertainty.
Despite threats to pension funds’ funded status including the investment environment, plan maturity, longevity risk and low interest rates affecting the funding valuation, Canadian funds HOOPP and OPTrust celebrated healthy funded status in recent reports. Top1000funds.com looks at their approach.
Australia’s largest superannuation fund, the A$250 billion AustralianSuper, plans to decrease its equity allocation in favour of fixed income according to the fund’s CIO Mark Delaney, as he predicts central banks will tap the brakes on monetary policy amid concerns of rising inflation.
The CIO of Canada Pension Plan Investments, Edwin Cass, shares insights on the benefits of leverage, the impact on liquidity and the governance structures for success.
The United Kingdom's Border to Coast pension pool has just mandated to a new private markets managers. Mark Lyon explains how the manager accessed the brightest and the best. The private markets allocation is on track to deliver promised fee reductions, despite mandating to expensive, sought-after external managers.
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