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AP3's Thulin sees markets growing more predictable, bets on timing EMs
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (357+ words) While most institutional investors have spent the past two years debating how much to allocate to U. S. technology giants, Sweden's AP3 has for some time quietly built individual positions in Korean chipmakers and Taiwanese manufacturers through a bottom-up, stock-by-stock approach " resisting the…...
OMERS advances capital rotation strategy as private markets deal activity strengthens
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (480+ words) The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) is continuing its capital rotation strategy, advancing three investment sales across its private equity and infrastructure businesses as deal activity strengthens across private markets. Against that backdrop, OMERS Private Equity has agreed to…...
Ontario Pension Board adds SVP to pension modernization team
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (177+ words) The Ontario Pension Board has appointed Steven French as senior vice-president of pension modernization, adding a veteran pension technology executive to lead the organization's ongoing modernization strategy. Earlier in his career, French served as director of strategic IMT planning in…...
Nordics Investors Retreat 2026: From the Sidelines
11+ hour, 35+ min ago (777+ words) Three allocators, one quiet through-line: the crowd is chasing AI and America, so the edge is everywhere else. Norway's biggest institutional names gathered at Lily Country Club in June. The Norwegian Government Pension Fund. KLP. Folksam. The Nobel Foundation. Nordea,…...
British Business Bank bolsters board with four new directors
17+ hour, 8+ min ago (268+ words) The British Business Bank has appointed four new non-executive directors to its boards, bringing in expertise spanning deeptech venture capital, retail financial services, Silicon Valley growth equity and institutional asset management, effective July 1. Kerry Baldwin, Ruth Handcock OBE and Robin…...
NZ Super snags Fisher Funds portfolio manager to lead PE and Alts investments
22+ hour, 1+ min ago (245+ words) The $52. 6 B Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation named William Fletcher as its head of private equity and alternative investments. He succeeds Rishab Sethi, who had been serving in the role on a temporary basis. In his new role, Fletcher will…...
IAPF urges Irish pensions to hike domestic investments
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (285+ words) Ireland's pension industry is pushing for a structural overhaul of how the country's growing retirement capital is deployed at home, warning that Irish pension funds allocate as little as zero to 1% of assets to domestic opportunities despite sitting on $165. 35 B…...
Rockefeller University appoints a new endowment CIO
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (195+ words) The Rockefeller University has appointed Jun Yang vice-president and chief investment officer of its $2. 5 B endowment, effective July 1, 2026. Yang succeeds Paula Volent, who will transition to the role of senior advisor, continuing to serve the university on a part-time basis....
Penn SERS' PE portfolio generates $1 B in distributions as liquidity rebounds
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (362+ words) The Pennsylvania State Employees" Retirement System"s $42. 6 B defined-benefit pension plan generated approximately $1. 04 B in cash distributions from its private equity portfolio in 2025, underscoring the portfolio"s growing role as a source of liquidity while remaining fully allocated to the…...
Bridgepoint to acquire Kayne Anderson Real Estate in $1. 39b deal
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (209+ words) Request the agenda to join the 13th Annual Real Estate Global Forum, December 1-2, in New York. Bridgepoint has agreed to acquire Kayne Anderson Real Estate (KARE) in a transaction valued at approximately $1. 39 billion, expanding its private markets platform and adding real…...