Pension funds in Europe started investing in private equity later than their US counterparts and don’t yet have a strong need for portfolio management.
3 min read · 16 September 2015
Kelly left Pomona in August and is starting as a partner at New York-based Farol this month.
2 min read · 16 September 2015
With a degrading macro and a stock market plunge, investors may have to face some old daemons such as the denominator effect, which may reappear on CIOs’ agendas, explains Thomas Liaudet, a partner at Campbell Lutyens’ secondary advisory team.
3 min read · 08 September 2015
General partners – with and without troubled funds – are increasingly seeing the secondaries market as a fundraising tool.
3 min read · 04 September 2015
The Canadian pension fund giant is looking to recruit a professional to focus on European secondaries and co-investments.
1 min read · 03 September 2015
At its latest investment committee meeting, the pension’s investment staff presented an elementary private equity cashflow example, prompting tough questions from board members.
2 min read · 03 September 2015
The pension fund’s investment board has agreed to add private debt and infrastructure to its separate account, now encompassing the firm’s entire private markets platform.
1 min read · 31 August 2015
The hiring comes a few months after investment consultant NEPC recommended that the $3.1bn pension plan makes its first commitment to a secondaries fund.
2 min read · 25 August 2015
The $26.2bn fund has already established a relationship with Landmark Partners last year, committing $300m to a couple of its funds.
2 min read · 20 August 2015
The $13.8bn pension plan had a successful sale last year but its chief investment officer indicated it shouldn’t depend on the secondaries market to access liquidity.
2 min read · 20 August 2015
