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Newsmakers
Deadline Extended for Asset Managers and Service Providers’ 2025 CIO Industry Innovation Awards Applications
This year, asset manager and service provider firms can directly apply to participate in the 2025 awards program. The application deadline is June 20.
Alternatives
Commercial Real Estate by the Numbers
The market is facing in a period of stagnation, muted property transaction activity, a supply-demand imbalance and lingering public-private real estate valuation challenges.
Newsmakers
Abu Dhabi, Vietnam SWFs Strike Deal to Seek Co-Investments
The agreement follows an October 2024 agreement between Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates to remove nearly all tariffs on each other’s exports.
Pensions
CPP Investments Assets Reach $490B After Big Quarterly Gain
Canada’s largest pension fund returned 3.8% last quarter and has returned 8.6% over the nine-month fiscal year-to-date period.
Pensions
Corporate Pensions Continue Funding Surplus Rise in January
Strong markets, steady discount rates push funded status higher and higher.
Alternatives
NYSCRF Bulks Up on Real Estate Investments in December
The $275 billion pension giant committed more than $2 billion in total for the month.
Pensions
MassPRIM Reports 9.1% Return in 2024, Assets Reach $109.7B
PRIM’s returns in 2024 were driven by a boom in equities.
Corporate Moves
UK’s People Pension Creates In-House Adviser
The workplace master trust’s investment team has nearly doubled in a little more than a year.
Pensions
Target Faces Another Lawsuit Related to ESG, DEI ‘Risks’
A police pension fund in Florida claims the company deceitfully hid the potential financial risks of celebrating Pride Month.
Asset Allocation
Canadian Pension Fund BCI Offers to Take Infrastructure Manager BBGI Private
The Luxembourg-based manager could be acquired for $1.31 billion.
Alternatives
Insurers Continue to Seek Greater Private Markets Exposure
According to Conning’s annual insurance investment risk survey, insurance investors are far less concerned about inflation than in recent years and are piling into private assets.
Pensions
Global Retirement Assets Reach $58.5T, Led by Defined Contribution Growth
The U.S. remains the biggest market, comprising 65% of AUM, according to the Thinking Ahead Institute.
Corporate Moves
Legal & General to Sell 20% Stake in PRT Business to Meiji Yasuda
In addition to the pension risk transfer stake, the Japanese insurer will acquire all of L&G’s U.S. protection business in a total $2.3 billion deal.
Market Moves
NBIM Touts Governance, Activism Track Record in 2024
Norges Bank Investment Management, manager of the world's largest sovereign fund, released its 11th annual responsible investment report, highlighting progress in its climate action plan.