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CalPERS’ private markets chief: TPA won’t disrupt PE commitment pacing

CalPERS’ private markets chief: TPA won’t disrupt PE commitment pacing

Anton Orlich, CalPERS' newly minted deputy chief investment officer for private markets, says the fund’s July adoption of the total portfolio approach will not impede the private equity strategy launched in 2022, arguing that short-term relative-value calls made under TPA would be expressed in liquid markets and not by oscillating commitments to private markets. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, Orlich unpacks the asset class’s four-year transformation.

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France’s Banque des Territoires looks for data centre opportunities

France’s Banque des Territoires, a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts, the country’s €323 billion state-owned financial institution, plans to invest more in data centres in France. The push is in line with government policy to build out AI infrastructure off the back of the country's access to cheap, green, nuclear energy that uniquely positions France to provide power to the AI industry while maintaining net zero credentials.

Why NYC pensions CIO hasn’t drunk the ‘TPA Kool-Aid’

Three decades of investing have given Monte Tarbox sharp eyes for recognising risk and opportunities, and he’s putting it to use as the new permanent chief investment officer of the $306 billion NYC Bureau of Asset Management. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, Tarbox outlines his vision for the fund, why he’s bullish on infrastructure but “nervous” on PE, and why he hasn’t drunk the TPA “Kool-Aid”.

Returns, resilience and reinvention: What private markets’ top brass are worried about

Senior executives from some of the world's largest private market managers gathered in Berlin this month with a collective understanding: managers who move slowly on AI face not just weaker returns but the risk of owning businesses that have been competitively displaced before they can exit.

What a brief encounter with Elon Musk taught me about the limits of capitalism

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How CIOs are building portfolios for an unpredictable world

As opposing macroeconomic and geopolitical forces collide, chief investment officers at leading pension funds say that trying to predict the future is a “loser’s game”. The question today is no longer what comes next, but how to build a portfolio that holds together in any investment regime.

Assault on universities fracturing the ‘social compact’ behind US growth

The breakdown of a decades-old bargain between the US government and its research universities threatens the engine that has driven American productivity and economic growth since the end of World War II, the Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Harvard heard.

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