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The $51.6 billion Canadian fund, HOOPP, returned 8.55 per cent for the 2013 financial year, exactly half the return of 2012. But it finished the year in a better position than the year before, demonstrating that returns are only half the story. Amanda White spoke to Jim Keohane about the funds liability-driven investment style.
Temasek’s pioneering tech investments
Singapore’s investment company Temasek’s is at the forefront of blockchain investment. Pradyumna Agrawal explains why going early and deep in tech investment is a sweet spot, encapsulated in the giant investor founding and building tech companies from scratch.
NBIM charts 25 years of investing in fixed income
The $1.23 trillion Norwegian sovereign wealth fund celebrates 25 years of investing in fixed income. Sarah Rundell looks at some of the highs and lows of its fixed income portfolio which makes up around 30 per cent of fund.
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Family dynamics are complex enough. Without simple, straightforward discussions and clarity of mission that resist the allure of complexity, the family office will struggle to achieve its goals.
On a mission to cure capitalism
Al Gore, former US vice president and co-founder with investment banker David Blood, of Generation Investment Management, said sustainable capitalism is not an argument that pension funds should sacrifice value in return for values.
SWFs invest record amounts in VC
SWFs invested record amounts into venture capital last year with VC allocations ballooning. Overall assets were boosted by four new SWFs: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cape Verde and Rio de Janeiro. While Israel, Namibia, Bahamas and Mozambique will all launch this year.
LASERS targets alternatives
The $12 billion Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System is overhauling its multipronged alternatives portfolio to concentrate on top-performing allocations and shake up the manager roster.
The habits of top ESG performers
A look at Corporate Knights’ 2018 ranking of the best companies for ESG reveals that they pay more in taxes, hire more women in executive roles, and generate more clean revenue than their peers.
Putting your footprint where your mouth is: CalSTRS reports on carbon emissions
In the latest move to demonstrate the same commitment to climate change it expects from its portfolio companies, CalSTRS has signed The Climate Registry, a leading voluntary greenhouse gas registry in North America. The $147 billion fund will report on its carbon footprint, which was dramatically reduced when it moved into its new building in
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