Recruitment firm Egon Zehnder has been appointed to do a global search for the next CEO of the Australian Retirement Trust following the resignation of Bernard Reilly two years after the pension fund’s formation by the merger of Sunsuper and QSuper.
The $71.9 billion Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System has reduced net leverage, added fixed income and continues to shave costs off its external investment management fees, mostly by reducing private allocations. The trimming and shifting of the portfolio is part of an adjusted SAA responding to ongoing market changes.
The United Kingdom’s £32 billion Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is marketing its credentials to act as consolidator for the country’s thousands of DB corporate retirement funds.
USS and the University of Exeter have outlined new climate scenarios that focus on short term, real world impacts and are more useful for investors. USS will use them to develop a long-term investment outlook and top-down portfolio construction.
Over a year into her role as executive director and CIO at SFERS Alison Romano gives the low down on how she approached her new role, how she is reviewing the absolute return allocation and how leadership involves more listening and asking questions than speaking.
The differentiating characteristics of unlisted and listed real estate diminish over time according to new research by Norges Bank Investment Management, supporting the sovereign wealth funds’ unique combined strategy for real estate that sees both private and listed sit in the same team.
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