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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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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.
UTIMCO gets ready for 2024
The endowment for two major Texan universities is hoping for a soft economic landing but planning for a recession. It is honing a playbook that ensures ongoing liquidity to make distributions, is not over its skis in terms of capital calls and commitments and has the firepower to invest in.
How Denmark’s Industriens is exploring AI to overhaul risk analysis
Industriens, the DKK 217 billion ($30.6 billion) Danish pension fund, is using advanced technology and exploring AI models to bring sweeping advantages to its risk management processes. Julia Sommer Legaard, investment risk and data manager at the fund for the last year, explains the process behind the innovation.
Norway’s GPFG argues the case for private equity – again
NBIM has petitioned politicians to let it invest in private equity - again. Arguing for a 3-5 per cent allocation with large managers in developed markets, NBIM recognises it will be unable to cap fees like in its other allocations and will curb costs by developing a co-investment program.
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