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New managers are up, secondaries are down and co-investments remain popular in the latest version of the Rede Liquidity Index.

Other obstacles include lack of in-house expertise, difficulty finding good managers and challenges executing co-investments, according to bfinance.

On Tuesday, the $24bn sovereign wealth fund will vote on a subscription to a portfolio management service to aid due diligence and portfolio monitoring across private equity, real return and real estate.

They accounted for 7% of CEE fundraising in 2017, having committed nothing in the previous two years, research has found.

Domestic PE was at least 10 times as popular, according to Schroder Adveq data.

The pension has changed the way it calculates investment limits and eliminated the category of 'direct investments'.

PE accounted for 20.9% of the investment portfolio, making it the third-largest asset class behind public equity and bonds.

Private equity was the pension's best asset class in the first half and could play a key role in filling the income shortfall.

For shareholders, the true appeal of listed fund managers such as Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR lies in their long-term potential.

The deal represents another step in Aberdeen Standard's strategy to be an end-to-end provider of fund finance.