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Australia’s fast-growing superannuation funds are increasingly allocating capital into US infrastructure, but success will rely on navigating an unpredictable federal policy environment and a patchwork of skeptical state governments.
‘Golden age of private credit’ comes with idiosyncratic risks: Pictet
Pictet private debt head Andreas Klein says “mainstream” private credit investments have run their course as buyout activity decreases and global regulators up their oversight. Instead, investors should consider “micro-niches”, but he warns these emerging corners of the market come with hidden and unique risks.
Investors need to rethink operating model
A neat little story of investment flows, asset allocation changes, and relationship and service demands is emerging from the third annual Top1000funds.com/Casey Quirk Global Fiduciary CIO Survey. If you’re a CIO of an asset owner what that means is more control but also more responsibilities and the demands of more internal resources. For managers it
Integrating ESG at Norway’s giant SWF
Behind the Strategy Council’s report to the Norwegian Ministry of Finance on responsible investment for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global.
CalPERS: a new framework of economy
CalPERS has adopted 10 preliminary investment principles following a board offsite in July, but a number of topics, including the role of active management, are still under debate ahead of the September board meeting that is the deadline for the principles’ adoption. The $266-billion Californian fund began the process for establishing investment principles in January
Passive Aggressive – the world of index investing is in flux as ESG integration into passive is on course to become the norm for new mandates.
Passive Aggressive – the world of index investing is in flux as ESG integration into passive is on course to become the norm for new mandates.
Understanding the cost of investment management
Across the institutional investment community, disclosure and transparency of costs continues to be evolving, but not fast enough. A paper by Commonfund Institute reveals only 18 per cent of respondents in an endowment survey reported incentive and performance fees paid to asset managers despite the fact that nearly 85 per cent of respondents reported having
The lasting impact of pension nudges
Choices people make when they enter defined-contribution schemes tend not to change, even after fraud allegations, a paper from behavioural economist Richard Thaler and other academics states.
Sourcing liquidity in fragmented markets
As equity trading becomes more fragmented, and more trading is done outside exchanges, it is prudent to assess whether alternative liquidity pools contribute to well-functioning markets. Norges Bank Investment Management has done the work for you, analysing the contributions, structures and functions of trading venues with limited pre-trade transparency. One of the benefits of liquidity
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