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The $4.2bn pension fund wants to grow its private asset bucket to 27% of its total portfolio.

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The retirement plan also increased its exposure to private infrastructure by 1%, while targets for real estate equity and natural resources investments stayed the same.

More than one in three of respondents plan to increase their allocation to emerging markets as a proportion of their total portfolio, up from 29 percent last year.

The $147bn pension manager is making sure its direct investments have the ‘right management and covenant-lite financing facilities’, as it anticipates the next downturn, says Ontario Teachers’ director of funds.

Continued investor focus on the strategy means costly valuations, resulting in median returns, say Asia-based LPs.

The $1.9trn financial services group expects to allocate up to $20bn to private equity within the next three years.

Almost 40% of LPs have already invested or will consider investing in funds that take stakes in GPs, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer.

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