In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with Amara Haqqani, director, insights and strategy at Milliman, about grassroots conversations about stopping the super guarantee, the industry’s Copernican moment of kicking product to the kerb, and what the real black swan event has been for super during the Coronavirus crisis.
Amara Haqqani: Super in 2020 – Copernicus, Warren Buffet’s swimming naked, and pitchforks in the street
CalPERS’ public and private equity reset shapes performance
CalPERS is continuing to reap the benefits of a sweeping overhaul of its public and private equity programs, with the two asset classes, which are the biggest components in the portfolio, powering a 14.8 per cent return for the $637 billion fund in the last reporting period.
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Maryland boldly seeks return to full funding
Tackling the 65-per-cent-funded status of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has resulted in the bold political move to boost employee contributions while a long-term plan to increase allocations to private markets is part of a push to hit the system’s 7.75-per-cent-return target. The system is more than 10 per cent below the average
Extracting value from managers
Three funds find effective ways to get better value from staff, co-investment and private markets. The Danish ATP, Australian Sunsuper and the Teachers Retirement System of Texas are among the funds looking at innovative ways to extract value and interact with the managers of their private equity allocations. Institutional investors are increasingly seeking new ways
Limited partners hold fee-bargaining power
In a harsh capital-raising climate, ATP Private Equity Partners and TRS have different startegies on how to drive hard bargains on private equity fees. Institutional investors are gaining concessions on private equity management fees, with a near-record number of funds on the road seeking funds resulting in a shift in bargaining power to limited partners.
Latest research
A study comparing the performance of equal-, value-, and price-weighted portfolios of stocks in the major US equity indices over the last four decades has won a prestigious award. Raman Uppal, Member of EDHEC-Risk Institute and Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, along with co-authors Grigory Vilkov and Yuliya Plyakha, both of Goethe University
Infrastructure – fewer fees, please
Public pension funds make up almost a quarter of the world’s 100 largest institutional investors in infrastructure and, while still favouring unlisted funds, they are increasingly investing directly and pushing back on management fees, research reveals. The research by global alternatives research firm, Preqin, shows a record number of funds on the road seeking a
Pensionomics,
a money-go-round
As debate rages in the US about the generous retirement benefits and high cost of state and local defined benefit (DB) schemes, new research sheds light on the role these funds play in stimulating the economy and creating jobs. Pensionomics 2012: Measuring the Economic Impact of DB Pension Expenditures looks at the effect of DB
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