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Maryland's Andrew Palmer reflects on 40 years in investment industry

3 days ago | top1000funds.com | Amanda White

After a decade in the top investment job at the $69 billion Maryland State Retirement Fund, Andrew Palmer will retire at the end of June. He speaks to Amanda White about his achievements and reflections on an industry where he has worked for 40 years.
Kentucky CERS: Trustees push back on hurried oil and gas investment

1 week ago | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell

The investment team at the $10 billion Kentucky County Employees Retirement System (CERS) had their hopes of making an additional investment in an oil and gas fund run by investment manager Kayne Anderson dashed at a specially convened board meeting at the end of April. Broadcast on Facebook from the fund’s Frankfort offices, the board and investment committee meeting process not only revealed trustees’ new reticence towards oil and gas assets in the current economic climate.
Switzerland's MPK taps gains in gold, equity and real estate

2 months ago | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell |Amanda White

Migros-Pensionskasse (MPK) the CHF29.4 billion ($31 billion) pension fund for Switzerland’s largest retailer, Migros, is in a robust state of health. A coverage ratio of 132.8 per cent means chief investment officer Stephan Bereuter is comfortably taking on more risk via a boosted equity allocation, and last December MPK was able to increase its pay out to beneficiaries. “We paid an additional 2000 francs to every pensioner.
Reasons to be bullish on China’s financial markets: Top economist - Top1000funds.com

2 months ago | top1000funds.com | Darcy Song

Investors have plenty of reasons to be bullish about China’s financial markets in 2025, according to one of the country’s top economists, as tech stocks continue to rally and expectations grow that the central government will soon shift to a looser macroeconomic policy stance.
Lessons in governance at Alaska's APFC

2 months ago | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell |Amanda White |Darcy Song

At a recent board meeting, trustees at Alaska’s sovereign wealth fund APFC garnered insights on governance from recent turmoil at PSERS’ and Ohio State Teachers. With the benefit of hindsight, the governance crisis at Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) that exploded in 2021 to catch everything in its path and result in criminal and regulatory investigations and legal fees running into millions of dollars, was painfully obvious.
OMERS positions to buy, favouring North America

2 months ago | top1000funds.com | Amanda White |Sarah Rundell

Only two years into the top investment job at OMERS, Ralph Berg has made his mark, dramatically re-engineering the investment programs, adjusting the geographical focus and getting ready to buy as M&A markets open up. Amanda White reports. Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss.
Asset owners proving trust goes hand-in-hand with transparency

Dec 5, 2024 | top1000funds.com | Amanda White |Simon Hoyle |Sarah Rundell |Darcy Song

Transparency is key to building trust according to executives at Norges Bank and the United Nations Staff Pension Fund. They discussed the benefits, and limitations of transparency at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at the University of Oxford. The Government Pension Fund Global, the giant Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, achieved a perfect score of 100 in this year’s Global Pension Transparency Benchmark (GPTB).
AI is a copilot, not a driver, of asset owner organisational change

Dec 5, 2024 | top1000funds.com | Simon Hoyle |Amanda White |Sarah Rundell |Darcy Song

Artificial intelligence continues to make inroads into the investment operations of major asset owners, but most are proceeding with a high degree of caution and setting clear boundaries around what the technology is and is not permitted to do, while resisting the temptation to allow AI to dictate organisational change.
Great power competition: The unlikeable, but undeniable, mega theme

Dec 3, 2024 | top1000funds.com | Leng Ohlsson |Sarah Rundell |Darcy Song |Jack SMith |Jack Smith

Global defence spending has jumped 18 per cent this year and is on track to reach as high as $3 trillion per annum by 2030, as the globe grapples with the largest number of active conflicts since World War II and a record number of forcibly displaced people. Governments are preparing for a decades-long battle for power that will impact trade, economic policy, and military and defence strategy, according to Simon Henry, managing director and portfolio manager at Wellington Management.
Biodiversity: Regeneration set to become big investment theme in future

Dec 2, 2024 | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell |Darcy Song |Chris Dastoor |Amanda White

Regeneration will become a key investment theme in the future but investors will find it easier to focus on a single impact rather than try to invest according to multiple biodiversity themes, according to Gabriel Micheli, senior investment manager, thematic equities, Pictet Asset Management. For example, he said, one company may be able to produce more food on a single plot of land but with consequences for water use.