Asset Classes
CPPIB considers impact of size
As the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board gets larger, it is considering how to retain its sizeable private-market holdings with public proxies. It’s a ‘capacity issue’.
Amanda WhiteNovember 20, 2017
Organisational Design
The value of the Canadian model
A lot has been written about the superiority of the “Canadian model” for managing pensions, but can a value be assigned to this organisational design structure?
Amanda WhiteAugust 8, 2017
Asset Allocation
LPP’s pooling ahead of the game
LPP’s chief investment officer is convinced proper governance is the key to fund collaborations. He has Lancashire County and London pensions on similar paths and has bulked up in-house prowess.
Sarah RundellMay 22, 2017
Organisational Design
A leader inside and out
UniSuper CIO John Pearce has put together an internal team that consistently delivers top-ranked returns. Here, he discusses his investment philosophy and reveals a dominant theme for 2017.
Sally Rose and Dan PurvesMarch 6, 2017
Research
Re-intermediating investment management
In this paper, Ashby Monk and Rajiv Sharma from the Global Projects Center at Stanford University, examine the balance of power among the various parties in the private assets investment food chain. They argue that fund managers have too much power, as do the consultants that act as gatekeepers to those managers. While the authors […]
Amanda WhiteJuly 22, 2015
Investor Profile
Capital provider: Australia’s Sunsuper
The $26 billion Australian super fund, Sunsuper, is investing in an increasing amount of exclusive unlisted asset deals. Chief investment officer David Hartley says the difficulties of banks in Europe in particular have led the fund down the path of increasing the amount of debt investments in its unlisted exposure. Much of this has been […]
David RowleyJune 4, 2014