Investment Allocations

Yasuyuki Tomita, who was promoted from DBJ Asset Management last year, will oversee the development of a growth equity platform targeting domestic SMEs.

Echoing the increasingly urgent public discussion around global warming and its impact, more investors are voicing their climate concerns, and goals, to their GPs.

Here’s how three limited partners are incorporating the strategy into their portfolios.

A white paper from Capital Dynamics shows multi-manager co-investment funds outperform primary vehicles and demonstrate more attractive risk characteristics.

John Vaske is establishing the Singapore government-owned investor as a key player in the North American market.

Public pension funds can no longer support funds which engage in monopolistic behaviour, said director of private equity Chris Schelling.

The move will enable roughly 85,000 DC members, representing around £1bn of funds, to select a private markets allocation within their investment programme.

The firm appointed Myron Zhu, former co-head of APAC PE at Aberdeen Standard Investments, in August to build out its third-party capabilities in Asia.

As the year draws to a close, PEI data reveals which investors made the most fund commitments over the past 12 months.

Shirley Ma, who has been tasked with more than doubling the Dutch pension giant's exposure to the region, talks co-investments, GP best-practice and Chinese tech valuations.