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TfL Pension Fund: A bespoke benchmark in Bridgewater mandate strikes gold

TfL Pension Fund: A bespoke benchmark in Bridgewater mandate strikes gold

Transport for London Pension Fund styled a bespoke benchmark to gold in its Pure Alpha mandate with Bridgewater. It has added hundreds of millions of pounds to the portfolio, says chief investment officer Padmesh Shukla. In a wide-ranging conversation, he also explains the rationale for reducing equity to just 18 per cent of the total fund and why emerging markets aren't offering the diversification or returns they used to.

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The efficiency trap

Will the relentless pursuit of efficiency undermine our ability to build a resilient and sustainable future? Andrea Caloisi, a researcher at the Thinking Ahead Institute at WTW, explores how complex systems, driven by short-term optimisation, may be fuelling long-term fragility.

PFZW’s IC chair explains why cutting equity names hones impact

Professor Dirk Schoenmaker, investment committee chair of the €250 billion ($291 billion) Dutch healthcare pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), whose expertise has helped inform its "3D" investment strategy, explains why less is more in an equity allocation with fewer stocks.

CPP hires former AIMCo Singapore head to bolster TPA 

After hiring former CalPERS' investment chief Ben Meng six months ago, Canadian pension giant CPP Investments has added another seasoned pension executive, Kevin Bong, to its investment team, in a sign that the C$732 billion ($530 billion) behemoth is staffing up to focus on alpha and enhance total portfolio management.

ACERA eyes global, more active approach for $6.6b equity portfolio

The $13.2 billion Alameda County Employees’ Retirement Association fund is planning a major overhaul of its equity portfolio, shifting from a passive US-focused approach to a more global, actively-managed strategy in an effort to boost returns. The shift will result in manager terminations and searches.

Accountability, performance at the heart of Temasek’s three-way split

Singapore’s Temasek has unveiled its biggest organisational overhaul in more than a decade, splitting its investment portfolio into three entities to “sharpen” investment focus, boost accountability and align performance metrics. It came as the fund targets a 60/40 split between the “resilient” and “dynamic” assets to weatherproof its portfolio.

NBIM divests firms linked to Gaza and West Bank crisis

Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has divested from US machinery manufacturer Caterpillar and five Israeli banks in its equity portfolio as it ratchets up pressure on firms contributing to rights violations in Palestinian territories.

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