Investment staff at Ohio STRS lose bonuses to board infighting
The investment committee at the $94 billion State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (STRS Ohio) has narrowly voted to block bonuses to investment staff.
‘We are way ahead’: How Fairfax County bagged staggering crypto returns
Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System says its allocation to digital assets has become the best-performing investment in the fund’s history. The $6.3 billion pension plan first invested in blockchain infrastructure and digital assets through venture funds in 2019, and early distributions are now beginning to arrive.
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Thames Water losses hold lessons on the importance of a comparative view
The travails of UK utility Thames Water highlights the importance of seeing infrastructure investment in the context of wider market or peer investments, rather than just focusing on the one asset.
New Jersey opens up to Next Gen managers
New Jersey already invests 18 per cent of its $11 billion private equity programme with emerging managers. Now it's rolling out its platform to Next Generation real estate and private credit managers too
CPP evolves total portfolio approach
Understanding the drivers of your portfolio risk and return, and then using that information to more dynamically adjust the portfolio, is one of the benefits of the total portfolio approach according to CPP's Manroop Jhooty, whose total fund management team is exploring whether to include emerging factors in portfolio design.
Australia’s Aware Super on VC and the pension investing purpose
The A$175 billion Aware Super’s CIO Damian Graham said its venture capital investment in tech unicorn Canva has been good value for money but "pretty unusual" in the scheme of things. He reflects on the asset class and the broader pension investing purpose.
Stock / bond correlations top of mind for Wisconsin
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is incorporating top-down macro analysis of the drivers of stock-bond correlations into its risk management, including to assess the potential of a secular shift in the stock-bond correlation.
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