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Texas ERS reallocates to managers to help navigate concentrated equity market
Texas ERS' CIO David Veal says the fund is re-allocating around a quarter of its public equity portfolio to external managers, away from the internal team. ERS plans to upsize with existing fundamental mandates but also allocate to new incremental relationships with diversifying strategies.
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Investing in volatile markets
The Future Fund portfolio has material exposure to two asset classes out of favour with many long-term investors. Chief investment officer, Raphael Arndt, explains why.
Trading rules and infinite monkey theory
Common sense must be applied to statistical data and rules-based investing should only be adopted with caution. Investors should prepare for the inevitable moment when the game suddenly changes.
Rising from the ashes
Ireland's Strategic Investment Fund will play to its strengths in evolving a strategy to invest a further €5.6 billion across the capital structure and for the long term.
Don’t sit on your hands with carbon
The long horizon might seem too long for many investors to deal with; but there’s no escaping the imperative to proactively deal with carbon risk says PGGM's Jaap van Dam.
Swiss investor gets real
Publica, one of Switzerland’s largest investors, is reallocating assets away from government bonds into real assets as it dynamically adjusts asset allocation due to macro-economic instability.
UK fund merger a first
Two UK local government pension schemes will merge, with a strategy of boosting internal management to 80–90 per cent of assets as well as paring back equity allocations.
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