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Japan’s sprawling financial conglomerates can lead to overlap between pension fiduciaries and fund placement businesses that requires careful management.

Following a several-year effort to correct an overallocated exposure to PE, early indications from council hint at plans for more reductions ahead of next year’s asset allocation process.

Private markets M&A continues to gather pace as asset management mega-platforms attempt to meet all their investors’ needs.

The top force fuelling M&A among private markets managers is the ambition to become as relevant to private wealth and insurance money tomorrow as institutional capital today.

‘I don’t expect a Blackstone stadium any time soon,’ president and COO Jonathan Gray says on the firm's Q3 2025 earnings call.

Ben Luckett, who set up Aviva's VC platform in 2015, says low distributed to paid-in ratios have been less of an issue for the investor to date due to the use of evergreen structures.

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The fund follows in the footsteps of other smaller pensions looking to increase their co-investment abilities.

The Latin American multifamily office has a near-term target of at least one-fifth of its clients’ holdings being placed in alternatives, says Daniel Sanchez, head of alts.

Private Global Impact Solutions fund to allocate €30-€40m to PE and VC impact strategies in the next 12 months