Pensions
Japan’s GPIF Wants to Minimize the Drawbacks of Investing in Alts
Research indicates replicating alternatives’ performance using ETFs could mitigate their shortcomings.
Tag: Alternative Assets
Market Moves
Why the Time May Be Ripe for a Return to Active Management
Investors will need help hitting even reduced target returns in the coming years, says Goldman Sachs report.
How Distressed Investors Are Getting Ready for Business Failures
Washington stimulus has delayed the bankruptcy parade. But it’s coming fast.
Asset Allocation
Endowments Should Abandon Alts for Passive Investments, Report Says
Research shows that alternatives have become ‘serious drag’ on institutional fund performance.
Alternatives
Alternative Investors Target Health Care, Logistics, Shun Real Estate
Managers see short-term disruption from pandemic but are optimistic about the long term.
Asset Allocation
Washington State Board Makes Up To $1.9 Billion in Extra Private Market Commitments
New allocation adds to WSIB’s already outsized allocation to these assets, which has helped cushion it amid equity market turbulence.
Alternatives
Most Institutional Investors Are Sticking to Their Private Market Allocations During the Pandemic
A survey by Eaton Partners concludes many institutional investors are keeping their allocations to private assets the same or increasing them.
Alternatives
Investors ‘Double Down’ on Alts Amid Market Turmoil
Market concern is increasing investors’ appetite for alternative assets.
Alternatives
Alternative Funds Top $10 Trillion in Assets Under Management
However, report finds an ‘increasingly challenging’ future for the industry.
Pensions
Worldwide Pension Fund Assets to Rise to $61 Trillion by 2025
Equity holdings fall by 22% in 20 years as pensions turn to alts in search of alpha.
Market Moves
StepStone Group Assembles Underwriters for Upcoming IPO
The alternative asset class investor is said to be gearing up for an upcoming public offering.
News
Los Angeles Lays Out Tentative Strategy for First-Time Real Assets Portfolio
Pension picks up infrastructure for the first time, and forms a new inaugural ‘real assets’ strategy.
Denmark’s PKA Splits Up Alternative Investment Facility
Responsibilities will be divided between two newly created independent companies.
Preqin: 80% of Institutional Investors Bet on Alternatives
Investors seek to allocate more to private debt, infrastructure in coming year.