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Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

Danish pension giant Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP) has been urged to cull risk, establish formal portfolio benchmarks and reduce private markets exposures, according to an external review committee which handed down a 536-page report into the fund’s investment operations after an 18-month review. Following the release of the report by the board this week, co-author of the review Andrew Ang unpacks the findings with Top1000funds.com.

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Culture Club: CalPERS puts people first in talent reboot under new CIO

Only two months in and CalPERS' new CIO Stephen Gilmore has already made his mark, with plans to overhaul talent and culture in the investment office, meeting frequency and the number of strategic initiatives slashed and an increased focus on data and technology to improve efficiency and reduce risk.

Utah’s URS: Why fossil fuels and alt energy hold key to climate crisis

US public funds should stop wasting time on thinly veiled political activism, ditch ESG conferences and repurpose most of their sustainability staff, says URS’ CIO John Skjervem. Instead they should invest in proven energy investments and move from either/or to both/and which allows fossil fuels to jostle alongside alt energy.

Church Commissioners: Managing historic real assets for the future

The jewel in the crown of the Church Commissioners’ portfolio, the London-based asset manager for the historic assets of the Church of England, is its allocation to real assets, which contributes to returns used to support the work and specific needs of the church, alongside clergy pensions.

Why AP4 has decided to integrate Scope 3 emissions across equities

Swedish buffer fund AP4 has begun integrating Scope 3 into its systematic equity allocation, convinced a company's up and downstream emissions data signposts the green winners of the future.

Japan’s Noritz fund talks asset manager gripes and why comparisons are bad

Japan's Noritz Pension Fund combines active management with a large allocation to cash. CIO Kyoshi Iwashina opines on his frustrations with the asset management community, his concerns about ESG and the dangers inherent in comparisons between corporate pension funds.

ATP returns hit again by large allocation to bonds

The $102 billion Danish pension fund, ATP, returned just 3 per cent in its return-seeking allocation in the first half of this year, buoyed by its foreign and Danish equity portfolios but pulled down by rising interest rates negatively impacting the large allocation to bonds.

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