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.
In a nod to headwinds including climate change, evolving demographics, and the future economic outlook the $85.5 billion United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund will use a slightly lower real rate of return to inform its upcoming actuarial valuation with the 2023 ALM scenario planning focusing on climate risk.
Fixed income at fiduciary manager MN will now include private debt. Markus Schaen explains the challenges of building out the portfolio alongside MN's client funds' strict ESG priorities. He also explains how for some ESG-conscious investors ESG integration and impact is more important than outperformance.
Norway’s giant sovereign wealth fund took out the top spot in this year’s Global Pension Transparency Benchmark. Amanda White talks to CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, Nicolai Tangen, about why transparency is important and why under his leadership Norges aims to be the best fund in the world.
Pension fund in many emerging markets are under pressure because policymakers allow savers to withdraw their money ahead of retirement. Juan Pablo Noziglia, CIO at Prima AFP in Peru explains the dramatic impacts on one of the country's largest funds as assets fall by half due to early
The $95.4 billion Oregon Investment Council has established anchor relationships in relative value, event-driven, and global-macro strategies, expanded the CTA portfolio, equally weighted managers, and is looking at additional multi-strategy funds. Meanwhile it is also restructuring its public equity allocation following a review of the portfolio and its managers.
NZ Super has revamped its multi-factor equities portfolios, working with its three external managers to integrate sustainability. Amanda White spoke to head of external investments, Del Hart, about the fine balance of meeting sustainability goals and finding factor alpha, and the next phase of the sustainability strategy: measuring investments for impact.
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