NBIM approaches water with a filter

July 13, 2026

FIS 2026 at Harvard University

Investors head back to EM as US tech capex bill mounts

June 02, 2026

NBIM lays out case for real estate turnaround

May 07, 2026

NBIM quantifies the portfolio threat of economic fragmentation

February 09, 2026

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.

August 25, 2026

Investor Profile

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

August 20, 2026

Investor Profile

LPPI: Keeping AI risk in check

August 18, 2026

Investor Profile

Why ACC investment chief believes CIOs should stay hands-on with portfolios

August 18, 2026

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Texas ERS reallocates to managers to help navigate concentrated equity market

August 10, 2026

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UPS: Risk assets and virtual happy hours

The $50 billion pension fund for employees of United Parcel Service, which has a preference for managed account relationships with its managers, is poised to increase its allocation to risk assets.

May 18, 2020

Asset Allocation

The importance of resilience

Already OPTrust’s portfolio can best be described as resilient. But CIO James Davis, who started his career in October 1987, expects global macro economic changes from this crisis that we have never seen before and he wants to position the portfolio for whatever is around the corner.

May 13, 2020

Fiduciary Investors Series

CalPERS: Leverage, liquidity, inflation

In this Fiduciary Investors series podcast Amanda White talks to Ben Meng, chief investment officer of CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the United States. Meng, who oversees an investment office of nearly 400 employees and manages investment portfolios of roughly $400 billion, talks about the fund’s plan to achieve its 7 per return target - including the use of leverage – the liquidity management of the fund and how it could deploy capital during the crisis, and the inflation.

May 12, 2020

Sustainability Digital – Sept 2020

Harvard endowment goes net zero by 2050

The Harvard endowment is about half way through its transition to external investment management and will work with its service providers to implement the university’s new directive, to position the portfolio in line with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

May 07, 2020

Investor Profile

The importance of governance in a crisis

From December to mid-March of this year New Zealand Super lost 20 per cent of its assets. It’s the second time in less than 18 months the fund has experienced a significant drop in assets but in an example of how good governance and process can allow for counter cyclical behaviour the fund is now buying equities.

April 29, 2020

Investor Profile

London’s CIV talks pooling progress

The coronavirus is an unprecedented test for the UK’s eight Local Government Pension Scheme asset pools. The London Collective Investment Vehicle, the pooling manager for the pension assets of London’s 32 boroughs has lost 15 per cent of the value of its portfolio for the month, and CEO Mike O’Donnell says ensuring liquidity and diversification are priorities in the months ahead.