Most of Australia’s retirement system is still just heading towards investing with scale for both accumulation and pension phase. The A$70 billion First State Super and CIO Damian Graham are already there. So what do its investments look like?
A case study looking at University of California Investments' reporting of illiquid asset valuations shows how institutional investors can use data science to improve operational efficiency.
The board of CalPERS is still wrestling with issues such as pay and level of control over its new private-equity entity. Meanwhile, opportunities could slip away if the launch is delayed.
Most investors aren’t ready for the enormous impact of AI, chaos theory and more on the industry. Stanford’s Ashby Monk says the first step in changing this is building networks for innovation.
The hunt for alpha is leading traditional investors toward more innovative strategies and operating models. And, significantly, one potential source of inspiration for long-term investors has come from an unconventional place: the community of sovereign development funds (SDFs). In this paper academics from Stanford University provide readers with analytical frameworks that can assist in the
Co-investment is often perceived as referring to institutional investors investing alongside their external asset managers in companies, but increasingly it refers to investment responsibilities being shared among peer investors, as long-term institutional investors are forming co-investment partnerships with the specific objective of deploying capital collaboratively into attractive investment opportunities. These collaborative partnerships seem to be an
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