Tag: real assets

Alternatives April 16, 2020

CAIA Clears Path for Democratization of Alternative Assets

The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst organization cites the key attributes the alternative asset industry must improve upon to become more accessible.

Alternatives April 3, 2020

NY State Pension Invested $2.7 Billion in Alts Just Before Market Tanked

The $210.5 billion fund invested more than $2.2 billion in private equity and no money in public equities.

News November 21, 2019

Los Angeles Explores Direct Infrastructure Investment Strategy for Local Projects

LACERA expands its analysis of alternative investment strategies to engage with the real asset class for the first time.

News October 2, 2019

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.

Alternatives July 16, 2019

Ohio School Pension Fund Tilting to Infrastructure

Officials expect the space to return 8%-10%, outperform commercial real estate by 200 basis points.

Risk April 17, 2019

CDPQ’s Annual Report Reveals a Smooth Operator in Turbulent Markets

From climate change initiatives to net returns, the investor maintains its cool through ‘key transactions in major asset classes.’

Alternatives April 12, 2019

At Pension Bridge: How a Utah Pension Plan Invests in Farmland

Organization’s head of agriculture and real assets explains what drove the fund to the space.

Newsmakers February 15, 2019

Los Angeles CIO Discusses Pension’s Unique Infrastructure Strategy

First-time approach to the asset class to utilize public-to-private.

Asset Allocation August 2, 2017

eVestment: Public Pension Plans Gravitating to Real Assets, Private Equity

The trend may help introduce more transparency in these private markets since public plans are held accountable, firm says.

Industry White Papers

Optimizing Pension Risk Transfer Timing and Execution Pension risk transfer transaction timing is always important — but now more than ever.

2020 Long-term Capital Market Assumptions Q3 Update

Investing in Real Estate, Look to New York—Here’s Why Capitalizing on near-term opportunities

2020 Long-term Capital Market Assumptions Q2 Update

Emerging Markets and Covid-19: Crisis or opportunity…or both? 2020 will be a challenging moment for Emerging Markets’ economies. But there will likely be a wide open Emerging Markets “door” that sees governments fall back on privatisation to bridge fiscal holes. In an environment of tight domestic monetary conditions and reduced cross border flows, the buyers of these assets have considerable advantage.

Meditations in an emergency Multi-Asset Strategist Adam Berger discusses the macro and market impact of the coronavirus and offers his "playbook" for the coming weeks and months, including thoughts on rebalancing and opportunistic investments.