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Border to Coast hunts strategic partners as private markets set to surge
The UK’s LGPS pool, £120 billion ($161 billion) Border to Coast, is hunting for strategic relationships with asset managers and global asset owners as it prepares to invest £40 billion in private markets. Chief executive Rachel Elwell speaks to Top1000funds.com about the fund's approach to finding long-term partnerships in the market.
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The benefits of alignment
Funds managers should always be open to ways to improve mechanisms for stronger investor alignment, writes Mercer principal, David Scobie. But there are several factors to consider.
Denmark’s PKA profits on alternatives
In one of the biggest allocations among the fund’s Danish and European peers, PKA has grown its alternatives portfolio to account for 25 per cent of assets under management.
‘Coherence’ key for defined contribution
As the world moves to defined contribution structures, many questions remain about its robustness, not the least of which is how defined contribution funds deliver adequacy.
GPIF announces boosted stewardship role
A year on from signing the PRI, the world’s biggest pension fund will seek discussion with non-Japanese asset owners regarding advances in environmental, social and governance practices.
Finance ‘not just about making money’
Nobel Laureate, Professor Robert Shiller, will speak at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Yale School of Management from October 23-25.
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