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CalPERS’ PE reform uses familiar model
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System decides to stick with a traditional approach to direct investment within its private equity portfolio, planning to use a model that features ‘captive’ general partners that will operate independently but with a clear mandate from the fund for long-term value and benefit to society.
CalPERS: Lessons from CIO departure
The CalPERS board is considering whether to require a new CIO to transfer all of their personal stock holdings into a blind trust while they are a CalPERS’ employee. The move follows the resignation of Ben Meng as CIO last year after an ethics investigation related to some of his personal investments.
HOOPP boss goes out on a high
Chief executive of HOOPP, John Crocker, has only one more board meeting before he retires, and except for travel plans to the Caribbean and Europe his dance card is empty. After 10 years in the position he leaves a fund in good shape – fully funded, technologically primed and with investments that use innovative, low-cost
Better performance and alignment of purpose: The benefits of TPA
A total portfolio approach aligns investment implementation with the purpose of being a fiduciary, rather than short term or relative performance. Not only that, there is huge upside performance from the approach, the source of which is not what you might think according to Sue Brake.
Lessons in governance at Alaska’s APFC
At a recent board meeting, trustees at Alaska’s sovereign wealth fund APFC garnered insights on governance from recent turmoil at PSERS’ and Ohio State Teachers.
Investing in the real world
The Fiduciary Investors Symposium is a good guide to the mood of global investors, and the have their eye on the “real world”. Amanda White opines.
Bridgewater on the impact revolution
Integrating impact alongside risk and return is a revolution that will see more diversification among investor allocations to asset classes such as commodities. Elsewhere, it requires using multiple data sets to analyse stocks and sovereign bond allocations to see the real-world impact of a company’s product or services, and which governments are heading to net-zero. Bridgewater’s head of investment research Karen Karniol-Tambour explains.
DB fund deficits blow out to near $100b for the month
America’s 100 largest corporate pension funds haemorrhaged US$95 billion in November alone, the highest monthly losses of 2008, after interest rate cuts and asset losses owing to global financial turmoil.
Oregon PE revamp shakes off GFC legacy
Oregon Investment Council has committed to investing $3 billion a year in private equity, with the smooth pacing strategy part a response to the fund’s overweight position to poor performing vintages as a result of its allocations before and after the GFC. The investor is also focusing on manager relationships with a focus on accessing new relationships and upsizing the best existing ones; and a new strategy that sees no provider in charge of more than 5 per cent of the portfolio.
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