Investment Allocations

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Elizabeth Littlefield, the CEO of the US government’s development finance institution, discusses OPIC’s impact investing tracking system and its interest in venture capital and renewable energy.

The Texas Municipal Retirement System approved nearly $380m for private equity commitments so far this year, short of its $600m target.

The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System is keeping its $800m annual commitment level to private equity, which it raised from $700m in 2015.

Despite perceptions of a move to trim back manager relationships, almost 80% of LPs are looking for new partnerships, surveys find.

Retail investors were the fastest-growing and largest group of any investor type in impact investing AUM in 2015, according to the Global Impact Investing Network’s annual report.

More than a third of limited partners believe a hard Brexit would lower European private equity returns, a survey finds.

PRIM, which has been building on its co-investment programme to cut fees and carry, has steadily reduced carried interest expenses in the past few years.

Private equity continues to play a large role in the portfolios of family offices and foundations; more than one-in-three has an allocation greater than 20%.

The Canadian pension fund’s private equity portfolio had been steadily increasing, marking a 5% quarterly increase in its fiscal second quarter ended 30 September.