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Florida State Board of Administration has built an active credit portfolio spanning public and private markets, CIO Lamar Taylor says the initiative could be the first step in a broader shift away from traditional asset-class investing towards a framework centred on return drivers and risk exposures.
AP2 has voiced its concerns around what impact the shift in US shareholder proposal exclusions, or the so-called “no-action letter” change, will bring to sustainability-conscious investors, as the Swedish buffer fund gears up for a busy year of engagement in 2026.
Nest, the largest workplace pension in the UK, says that private credit managers who prioritise institutional clients will be more favourably viewed. The £61 billion ($82 billion) fund has awarded a £450 million ($605 million) US direct lending mandate to Crescent Capital this month, citing the manager's institutional-client-first approach as a key attraction.
TPA allows investors to better manage investment trade-offs, such as liquidity, costs and alpha, and has public and private investments compete explicitly on a common risk-adjusted basis, according to a new paper by CPP Investments. The Canadian giant, which has been practising TPA for two decades, says TPA cannot eliminate uncertainty, but it helps build resilience to it.
As concerns in private credit mount, Colorado PERA CIO and COO Amy McGarrity says the pension fund isn’t seeing any strains in its growing allocation to the asset class, arguing that long-term investors are shielded from the risks because they can lock up their capital to weather market cycles.
Canada has established its first national-level sovereign wealth fund with a seed of C$25 billion ($18.3 billion) to underwrite “nation-building” projects like ports, mines and energy infrastructure. In an unusual funding mechanism, the fund will issue a retail product that will allow individual investors to invest with the SWF and “participate in Canada’s growth”.
PKA, one of Denmark’s largest pension service providers, is exploring whether to increase its risk budget by 10 per cent to boost returns. Michael Flycht, deputy director of equities and liquid alternatives at PKA, outlines why the fund is achieving this objective via leverage rather than direct exposures, and where it's allocating towards in hedge funds and infrastructure.
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