CPPIB active in emerging markets
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has increased its focus on emerging economies, using active management to access local expertise and maximise its advantages of scale.
Germany’s largest pension fund VBL ups diversification; invests more abroad
Germany’s €70 billion pension provider VBL is increasing its diversification, notably investing in overseas real estate outside Germany for the first time. It's also increasing its tilt to international equities over European stocks, enabled by an organisational and investment process overhaul.
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Strive for elegance on fees: consultant
Albourne's John Claisse says hedge funds must make more flexible arrangements with managers to survive and points to the ‘1 or 30’ model for its simple approach to putting the focus on alpha.
Future Fund revamps equities
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund has revamped its equities portfolio to take on deliberate factor risk and target idiosyncratic risk. The fund’s head of equities, Björn Kvarnskog, explains.
Absolute returns boost Statewide
Australia’s Statewide Super is a top performer under Con Michalakis who embraces absolute returns and active managers while fighting against what he sees as the greatest risk of all, complacency.
LPs can look beyond top in VC
The common refrain from limited partner investors is that they can’t access ‘top-tier’ VC funds, so they avoid them entirely. A look at the data reveals whether this belief is fact or fiction.
MERS: real assets, non-US markets
MERS chief investment officer Jeb Burns still finds value in active management as he seeks to up the fund’s exposure to emerging markets, and other non-US locales, in equities and real assets.
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