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Korea’s national fund steps on the gas with global shift
The $200 billion National Pension Fund of Korea, which like many Asian funds sailed through the global crisis virtually unscathed, is looking to reduce its big overweight to fixed interest in favour of international equities and other growth assets.
UTAM favours equities, private credit
The University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation adopts passive moves into US equities, active allocations to international shares and select opportunities in private credit markets.
HOOPP splits investment functions as Keohane appointed to top job
The $35.7 billion Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) will split its chief investment officer function in two following the appointment of Jim Keohane to president and chief executive and the retirement of John Crocker.
AP3 drives further portfolio diversification
Investment staff at Sweden’s Third National Pension Fund, AP3, have discretion to make tactical decisions as part of a dynamic asset allocation strategy that along with a drive to diversify investments aims to achieve an ambitious 4 per cent real return target.
Investors trying to change the world: Why climate investing is so difficult
Asset owners are preparing their portfolios for the climate transition, reducing holdings in companies with high emissions and pledging billions to climate investments. But climate proofing portfolios is proving one of the most arduous and complex challenges investors have ever faced. Top1000funds.com takes a close look at the progress.
Johnson urges pension simplicity
There is a David-and-Goliath feeling to the battle Michael Johnson, a research fellow at the London-based think tank the Centre for Policy Studies, is waging against the pension industry. His research, which lays out the case for radically simplifying all aspects of the United Kingdom’s pension sector, has earned him a reputation as a maverick.
Sovereign debt’s grave new world
Bonds have been the saviour for institutional investors in the global recovery, but a new bout of risk-aversion induced by concerns about sovereign risk threatens the stability of the traditionally defensive assets.
Texas’ ERS to boost alternatives
The $29 billion Employees Retirement System of Texas will add to its alternatives portfolio over four years and wants small managers to represent 10 per cent of its active mandates.
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