illiquid assets

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Hostplus wins with illiquid assets

The $25 billion Australian retirement fund for hospitality workers is able to invest in illiquid assets such as infrastructure due to its young membership. The approach has led to top-ranked returns.

Alice UribeSeptember 10, 2018

Looking for illiquidity

National Employment Savings Trust CIO Mark Fawcett says the fund is leveraging its growth to pursue illiquid assets for premium returns, greater diversification and reduced volatility.

Mark FawcettMay 4, 2017

Coal pension burns for cash flow

Coal Pension Trustees Services includes a sizeable allocation to equities and is making a move into illiquid sectors such as shipping assets – ‘floating property’ – to generate cash flow.

Sarah RundellMarch 13, 2017

Balancing the long and short of it

Recent reports highlight challenges sovereign wealth funds face in reconciling long- and short-term objectives – and how success in private markets comes from finding and developing talent.

Amanda WhiteJanuary 4, 2017

Finnish pension fund counters low rates

Finland’s €18.5 billion State Pension Fund (VER) will slightly increase its allocation to hedge funds, in order to counter the impact of low interest rates on its fixed-income holdings.

Sarah RundellDecember 14, 2016

PERA renames asset buckets

The Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico, is re-calibrating its asset allocation and re-adjusting private equity.

Sarah RundellJuly 27, 2016

Capturing illiquidity premiums

This paper commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance investigates the possibilities for the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to profit from liquidity premiums in illiquid investments. It looks at the empirical evidence for the presence of liquidity effects in a broad range of asset classes: listed equities, corporate bonds, treasury and agency bonds, and […]

Amanda WhiteMarch 14, 2014

In Conversation

Liquidity tightens, volatility rises

How should pension funds in the United Kingdom best prepare for the government unwinding quantitive easing (QE) and tightening monetary policy? The Bank of England isn’t showing any signs of ending QE just yet, its policy begun in 2009 and designed to stimulate the economy by creating new money to buy government bonds. But QE […]

Sarah RundellSeptember 11, 2013

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