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ART property boss: Investors were wrong to think real estate was easy
Australian Retirement Trust real estate head Mark Lee says the COVID downturn exposed that treating real estate as an easy asset class was a crucial mistake from investors, and property is not just a “bond replacement with a slightly higher yield”. As the A$20 billion portfolio prepares to double in five years, Lee says future returns will depend increasingly on investors’ ability to “sweat the assets”.
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PGGM revamps fixed income; focuses on liquidity
PGGM's Wilfried Bolt explains how the end of quantitative easing (QE) has changed the asset manager's hedging strategy and prompted a keen focus on liquidity. He also explains the rationale behind managing more of the corporate bond allocation in house.
Texas ERS boosts cash allocation as higher rates end era of dead money
Texas ERS has bumped up its allocation to cash to 10 per cent, and revamped its global equities around a core fund with an overweight to AI and other Magic Seven themes, drug manufacturers and aerospace. Another key development in equities includes reducing the number of stocks by half.
The RFP bonanza emanating from Sweden’s Fund Agency
In an unprecedented bonanza for fund managers, the $100 billion Sweden’s Fund Selection Agency is preparing multiple RFPs as it re-tenders its whole portfolio. With a focus on quality and cost, executive director Erik Fransson explains his ambition for the overhauled system.
ART looks to digital infrastructure, energy transition for opportunities
The $171 billion (A$260 billion) Australian Retirement Trust, which sets itself apart from its Australian peers with the identifying investment features of lower infrastructure allocations and less internal management, is looking to opportunities in digital infrastructure and the energy transition.
Arizona ups equity, adjusts pacing on overweight private markets
Arizona State Retirement System will opportunistically increase both US and international public equity exposure in line with its moderately bullish view on public equities and a new strategic asset allocation that targets 44 per cent of AUM in the asset class.
IMCO explains its key criteria when it comes to investing outside Canada
Canadian investor IMCO lays out compelling arguments to invest overseas but warns that a country's GDP growth does not equate to returns and tends to avoid emerging and frontier markets because of heightened geopolitical and currency risk.
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