Investment Allocations

Various public pension funds in the US and Canada have voiced their unaltered long-term outlook for private equity and see potential opportunities arising from market volatility.

Fund of funds and secondaries prove most popular strategy choices.

The Bank has made commitments to a number of UK-focused private equity funds; there will be no immediate changes to its engagement with the country, it has said.

The country’s largest pension system established a transition manager program for firms in between its emerging manager platform and its pool of larger established managers.

For the first time, Illinois ranked first in the amount of PE capital invested among all US states, with $94.64bn invested in the state last year, supporting the American Investment Council’s message that private equity has become ubiquitous in the US.

Jason MacDonald, who joined the New Jersey Division of Investment in 2007, will join his alma mater as an investment director in July.

The developing Mexican private equity market is currently the hot spot for Latam investments, but the path to a more mature market is not without hurdles.

Partners Group has launched what it describes as the first private markets fund designed for UK defined contribution pension schemes. Other firms will likely follow.

An iCapital Network survey of registered investment advisors found 33.6% of them have offered PE investing to their high net worth individual clients.

UniSuper, a shareholder in Adelaide and Brisbane airports, could look to invest overseas 'sooner rather than later' as its assets under management start outgrowing its domestic market.