The UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is in the process of an organisational pivot as it looks to shift its primary function away from driving ESG accountability among investors (which it has been doing for the past two…
Deputy CIO Scott Chan has been appointed to the top investment job at CalSTRS. Top1000funds.com takes a look at his leadership style and his influence so far on the team and the fund’s investments.
ACCESS, the United Kingdom's £35 billion Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool, is seeking two private equity managers in its latest push into private markets following mandates to infrastructure and real estate managers in the last…
Innovation at the Kellogg Foundation includes investing with a handful of cutting edge quant hedge fund managers that are using machines rather than people to figure out the algorithms. CIO Carlos Rangel also explains why he thinks hybrid…
The CEOs of Sweden's AP funds comment on important milestones in the last year, including decisions to bring more management in-house, governance changes and increased sustainable investment.
Oregon Investment Council’s exposure to private markets has been a great source of excess returns over the years, but today the overweight allocation to illiquid markets is a growing concern with ramifications for liquidity particularly.
Asset owners who assess their outsourced fund managers are facing mounting challenges that mean emerging tools, such as AI, are key to successful operational due diligence. Top1000funds.com takes a closer look at the responsibilities and…
Research into Top1000funds.com readers’ preferences and habits reveals that the publication is rated as the most useful to them in the performance of their jobs, and is read by some of the most senior investment professionals inside asset…
Stanford endowment's CEO Robert Wallace explains the three pillars of his approach to investment: strategy, execution and governance. He was speaking at Norway's NBIM annual investment conference.
Factor rebalancing a portfolio is a better way to manage liquidity and leverage implications of illiquid assets compared to traditional rebalancing to a static asset allocation, according to new research.
Positive social tipping points are probably the fastest and most powerful way of addressing the climate crisis but how do we tip a social system? The Thinking Ahead Institute's Time Hodgson investigates.
South Africa’s $119 billion Government Employee Pension Fund is in the process of readying its investment processes for a new law that will allow people to draw down some of their retirement income early.
CalPERS may tie the incentive pay of its staff to meeting climate KPIs in the near future. The fund's executive pay consultants also discussed other ways the fund should tweak incentive pay like adding an asset class investment performance…
The clock is ticking for Dutch fund PWRI to transition to a new DC scheme in line with pension reform. Imke Hollander explains why the pension fund is unlikely to invest more in risk assets and flags mounting costs in the transition,…
The $77 billion LACERA has positioned for the downside, launching a new asset allocation that pivots towards diversification and downside risk, adding to hedge funds and investment grade bonds. Top1000funds.com talks to CIO, Jonathan…
New rules may enable employers to tap surplus funds built up in defined benefit plans in the UK. It remains unclear if this would alter investment strategy and see these funds invest more investment in so-called productive assets rather…
Two of the biggest pension funds in the world, the Dutch APG and Japan’s GPIF, have joined forces to invest in large scale infrastructure deals. The move comes as APG Asia head Thijs Aaten says he envisages more than half of the fund’s…
CalSTRS’ net zero strategy has provided a new level of focus and anchor for the 220-person investment team. Kirsty Jenkinson, investment director for the sustainable investment and stewardship strategies at the fund, explains its evolution…
A new report points to the Total Portfolio Approach (TPA) as one way for institutional investors to build more resiliency into their portfolios. Report contributors Derek Walker and Geoffrey Rubin from CPP Investments explain how they…
A new climate index at Danish investor PenSam aims to solve the overweight to tech stocks, a common problem for sustainable investors give the sector is low emitting and solving many of the challenges of climate change.
Padmesh Shukla, chief investment officer of the £14 billion Transport for London Pension Fund explains why he believes hedge funds are a crucial element to a diversified portfolio.
Paul Bucksey, CIO of Smart Pension, the UK's fast growing DC master trust explains why Smart Pension's low cost, technologically advanced model is proving so successful.
MetallRente, the risk-averse German pension fund for workers in the metal and electrical industries, now offers an equity allocation in its conservative direct insurance option. The chance to tap the capital markets for higher returns has…
Recent research by The Conexus Institute identifies significant dispersion in the operating environment for Australia’s superannuation funds. Here they consider the impact on fund investment models including internalisation, private assets…
Roy Swan, director, mission investments at the Ford Foundation, is helping The Church Commissioners for England set up a new impact fund to tackle its slavery legacy. He tells Top1000funds.com about how the fund will provide grants and…
A clear commitment to DEI is helping CalPERS support its senior staff to optimise the performance of its existing teams and provides a valuable framework for attracting a diverse range of new talents. We spoke to chief diversity, equity…
Politicisation at US public pension funds has taken a turn for the worse after a new law threatens to put politicians in charge of the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi.
Global strategy advisor and economist Parag Khanna said Asians’ movements around the world and their increasingly deep intra-region relationships will have massive geopolitical and workforce impacts on global markets.
Factor rebalancing a portfolio is a better way to manage the liquidity and leverage implications of illiquid assets compared to traditional rebalancing, according to new research by investors at HOOPP who presented at the Fiduciary…
Asset managers are spending vast sums of money to develop artificial intelligence systems to help them make better investment decisions. At a Top1000funds.com event in Singapore, Bridgewater co-CIO Greg Jensen discussed applying AI in…