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TfL Pension Fund: A bespoke benchmark in Bridgewater mandate strikes gold
Transport for London Pension Fund styled a bespoke benchmark to gold in its Pure Alpha mandate with Bridgewater. It has added hundreds of millions of pounds to the portfolio, says chief investment officer Padmesh Shukla. In a wide-ranging conversation, he also explains the rationale for reducing equity to just 18 per cent of the total fund and why emerging markets aren't offering the diversification or returns they used to.
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SWIB praises tech overhaul
Portfolio-level views of risk and alpha-generating strategies help explain why the State of Wisconsin Investment Board says its technology refresh has already paid for itself.
Managers perform for Texas Teachers
Manager selection led to nearly three-quarters of outperformance for Texas Teachers in 2017 as the fund beat its benchmark by 168 basis points.
CIO ready to leverage tech at IOOF
New IOOF chief investment officer Dan Farmer is looking to reduce correlated risk and diversify into alternative assets. To help achieve all this, he’s undertaking an ambitious software project.
Texas Teachers overhauls equities
Texas Teachers has made extensive changes to its equities portfolio, increasing risk premia, reducing active management and applying new strategies developed by the fund’s research arm.
Future Fund talks alternatives
Craig Dandurand, director of debt and alternatives for the Future Fund, offers a glimpse into how it has recalibrated its approach to investing in hedge funds and other risk premia.
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