Investment Allocations

Impact investors can no longer go it alone. To make a real difference, they must connect with governments, NGOs and corporates to work towards a common goal.

Private equity is a relatively new concept for Ghana’s pension funds, having only been authorised by the country’s National Pension Regulatory Authority on 1 April.

The firm’s COO, Tony James, sees the traditional 10-year private equity fund as ‘a bit of a treadmill’.

The insurer's head of alternatives is a fan of private equity, but wants to put the capital to work on his own terms.

The Apax and Bridges co-founder wants 100 pension funds and endowments to allocate 5-10 percent of their assets to impact investing.

The Auckland-based sovereign wealth fund plans to accelerate direct investments in the country, adding to its $3.5bn domestic portfolio.

Industry practitioners agree the best managers in the lower mid-market are producing the best returns private equity can offer – but identifying those groups is not an easy task.

Thanks to the internet boom, venture capital has been the endowment's best-performing asset class.

Details of the Asia-focused fund's strategy and terms were revealed in documents prepared for Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System.

Despite commitment to the impending Stewardship Code, Korean institutional investors are still working out how to incorporate ESG into their portfolios, the CIO of POBA tells PEI.