Brunel Pension Partnership, renowned for its leadership in sustainable investment, and ACCESS have been told to merge with other LGPS pools in the latest step on the UK government’s quest to create mega pools and boost investment in so-called productive assets.
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund says managing FX in its portfolio is becoming more challenging as the dominant role of the US in the global order is redefined. Meanwhile, it’s also bringing management of Australian infrastructure and property in-house as part of a focus on domestic real asset exposures.
Unlike many other US institutional investors, Washington State Investment Board has not built out a large private credit allocation. This autumn the board will decide on the size and shape of a standalone allocation in which partnering with top quartile GPs will be essential.
The $23 billion Toronto-based Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Fund (CAAT) is increasing its allocation to real assets in line with a new asset liability study completed last year, finding rich pickings in Canadian transition infrastructure.
Uncertainty surrounding the impact of the US administration’s policy plans weighed on markets, including the implementation and reversal of tariffs, job cuts across the federal workforce and tightened immigration enforcement.
NYC Retirement Systems’ expanding diverse and emerging manager program is supporting returns but Taffie Ayodele, director of DEI and emerging manager strategy at the pension fund’s asset manager, the Bureau of Asset Management, fears the number of diverse founders spinning out in the future could be diminished.
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