investment allocations

Public pension funds can no longer support funds which engage in monopolistic behaviour, said director of private equity Chris Schelling.

The move will enable roughly 85,000 DC members, representing around £1bn of funds, to select a private markets allocation within their investment programme.

Shirley Ma, who has been tasked with more than doubling the Dutch pension giant's exposure to the region, talks co-investments, GP best-practice and Chinese tech valuations.

The Dutch pension giant will make a senior co-investment hire in Hong Kong next year, senior portfolio manager Shirley Ma told PEI.

The country’s mid-tier lenders are piling into the asset class in a bid to generate additional business opportunities in their respective locales.

The $388bn pension fund will need to expand its core managers list and SMAs to reach its target allocation, consultant Meketa told the pension's board on Monday.

The UK development finance institution's South Asia head speaks to PEI about sectors impact funds should focus on and why it's hot on debt.

Small- and mid-cap funds have been alpha generators for the pension system's PE portfolio, according to chief investment officer Farouki Majeed.

'Parts of the legacy portfolio do not have a prospect of generating a return commensurate with the risk and the illiquidity entailed, and may not provide a return at all,' CIO Narv Narvekar wrote.

The pension system has reviewed opportunities from more than 20 GPs and made more than 54 private equity co-investments.