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Why politics and pension fund management don’t mix
Thomas P DiNapoli was given a little scare in the recent US mid-term elections but, in the end, was returned fairly comfortably to his position of New York State Comptroller and sole trustee of the New York State pension fund. What happens next, though, may be more interesting.
Chicago Police fills alternatives allocation
The Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago has appointed GMO and PIMCO to global tactical asset allocation mandates boosting the fund’s alternatives allocation by 10 percentage points.
CalPERS’ securities lending loss
CalPERS will continue its securities lending program following an annual review, despite significant pressure on its collateral pool, with income of $220 million generated for the year to March but unrealised losses on the internal collateral reinvestment of $854 million.
TRS invests in PE, eyes opportunistic real estate
The $30 billion Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) will commit up to $1.2 billion to private equity, and will focus on opportunistic investments in real estate including emerging manager initiatives, as it aims to reach its new long-term allocations in those sectors by year end.
Funds seed for the future
Two major pension funds from the Netherlands and Canada – ABP and OMERS – have seeded an innovation and technology program to invest in their domestic knowledge economies. Called inkef capital, it has already begun searching for the success stories of the future.
Denmark’s PFA: Passive with a caveat and why an AI reset lies ahead
Kasper Lorenzen, chief investment officer of Denmark’s PFA explains why passive is no longer applicable to the complex equity strategies that do much more than follow an index. He also explains why he believes an AI reset lies around the corner.
International reaction to QSuper’s innovation
Australian fund, QSuper’s creation of eight different investment cohorts for its 440,000 default fund members this month has sparked curiosity and admiration from defined contribution experts in the US, the UK and New Zealand. The investment strategies for each group will be focussed on an estimated retirement outcome for that segment, taking into account the
State pension funds tilt towards politically-connected stocks
It is well documented that local bias exists in US state pension fund holdings, but now an article in the Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) finds evidence not only of local bias, but bias towards politically-connected stocks. Not only that, but the article finds that political bias is detrimental to fund performance. “Political bias is
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