Real Assets
A Southern pension plan consolidated its passive domestic equity portfolio at today’s board meeting.
Three senior investment professionals have spun out of a Southern endowment to create a new private markets platform supporting new and developing investment managers.
The plan added two managers to its equity portfolio after increasing the target last year.
A coalition of Canadian university endowments and pension plans has announced a new initiative to engage corporations on climate change to reduce climate-related risks in their investment portfolios.
A Mid-Atlantic university committee has released a report on fossil fuel divestment.
The previous CIO became Aviva Investors’ CEO last month.
The plan added an infrastructure commitment in January and funded several new investments in December.
Plan will target $25 million to infrastructure for 2021-2022 and could issue an RFP if no existing relationships are out to market.
Institutions should take a fresh look at financial and investment strategies to address challenges to their business models and maintain optimal asset allocations to meet a 7.5% historical return target, particularly in the face of a long-term era of muted returns, according to a recent study.
A foundation in the Mid-Atlantic region expanded its asset allocation range for real assets and increased its range for alternatives or non-traditional assets as part of changes to its investment policy statement last year.