Newsmakers
IFM Investors Names Global Product Strategy Head
The appointment is designed to strengthen the firm’s ability to respond to changing market conditions and client priorities.
Tag: Private Markets
Asset Allocation
Leaning Heavily on Alternative Investments, Foundations Ring Up Strong 2025 Returns
Community foundation returns topped private foundations’ for a third year in a row.
Corporate Moves
Sell-Side Firm Wolfe Research Launches Alternative Asset Management Unit
The platform will offer investment opportunities across private markets.
Alternatives
Family Office Investors Attracted by Flexibility, Tax Advantages of Direct and Co-Investments
Interest in alternative investments remains strong, but family offices are taking a more disciplined approach to the asset class.
Opinion
Private Markets Don’t Need More Data; They Need Data That Connect
Standardized information to compare fund and manager performance across cohorts and to reconcile exposure, risk and valuation across portfolio holdings, writes a Bloomberg executive.
Risk
Focus on Liquidity Risk Sharpens as Slower Private Equity Distributions Persist
Over-allocations, public market concentration, and questions about the cost and sources of funding all lead to questions for investors.
Newsmakers
CalPERS Elevates Anton Orlich, Names Derek Walker to Lead Total Portfolio Approach
Orlich will oversee the pension fund’s alternative investments, while Walker will spearhead it’s adoption of TPA.
Alternatives
MSCI Buys Secondaries Market Data Company PM Insights
With the purchase, the index provider seeks to bring transparency to private market pricing, valuation, transaction and liquidity data.
Opinion
Artificial Intelligence: 2 Sides of the Same Allocation Coin
The increased agility available in public markets might provide more value than the higher-return expectations in private markets.
Market Moves
Princeton University Slashes Endowment’s Long-Term Return Assumption to 8%
Citing the economic and political climate and ‘steadily declining’ long-term returns among Ivy League peers, the school is shifting its investment strategy to focus from growth.
Market Moves
Here Come the Mega IPOs
After years of few public offerings, heavyweight private companies such as SpaceX and OpenAI look to list their shares for the first time in 2026 and beyond.
Newsmakers
Carlyle Taps NEPC’s Bill Ryan as Head of Retirement Solutions
The investment consultant’s defined contribution team leader will join the alts manager in January.
Opinion
The Forces Propelling Direct Lending: As It Scales, Complexity Follows
What CIOs should be watching as private lending moves into the mainstream of corporate financing and institutional portfolios.
Opinion
Unlocking 401(k) Innovation: Litigation Risk Is Stifling Thoughtful Stewardship
How the recent executive order on private assets in defined contribution plans could pave the way for investment committee excellence.
Asset Allocation
Institutional Investors Expect to Raise Risk Tolerance for Private Markets
Private infrastructure is attracting more attention from pensions, sovereign wealth funds and endowments, per a Nuveen survey.