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Private equity exposure interests University of California target-date funds.

The investment committee said it must temper expectations for growth despite the recent strong performances.

The Dutch pension manager is losing Eduard van Gelderen to the $10bn university system, where he will be senior managing director of public equities investments.

The UC Board of Regents will up its PE allocation for its $9.9bn endowment at the expense of public equities and fixed income, but said it will take its time and doesn’t want to ‘just fill a box’.

The California endowment's private equity target is now 22.5%.

Hundreds of private equity relationships for a very small team are simply not manageable, UC Board of Regents CIO says.

The institution has brought on Thomas Lurquin as director of natural resources investments. Lurquin spent several years investing private equity at the University of California.

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Partners Group has launched a new strategy dedicated to private markets royalties. Plus: an exploration of sponsor-led PIPEs; and another Japan fund has reached a close. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

EQT's chief executive reckons the industry's heightened focus on value creation might catalyse consolidation. Plus: why discounts in Chinese secondaries might not be all they appear; and meet one of the private markets' most bullish foundations. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

PEI’s LP of the year in North America also triumphs in the GI 100, suggesting this relative newcomer to the industry is here to stay.

Carlyle Group has lofty ambitions for its next Asia mega-fund. Plus: California Public Employees' Retirement System is pondering a hefty allocation increase for private equity and Ontario Teachers' Public Pension Plan has lost its global head of VC funds.

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