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Wayne Moore also asked that staff and JP Morgan, which runs the private equity emerging manager programme, provide more information about the demographic make-up of its GPs.

Ben Meng stepped down from his post in August, only weeks after announcing a long-term plan to introduce more leverage and push further into private equity and private debt.

A joint statement in March by California State Teachers’ Retirement System, Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund and UK’s USS Investment Management signaled a significant shift in reallocation of capital.

The A$49bn institution has ‘a lot of money’ invested across Chinese private equity and venture capital, PE head Neil Stanford tells delegates at a virtual conference.

The country's largest public pension has been exploring how it could increase its private equity exposure and begin committing to other asset classes, according to head of alternatives Per Olofsson.

As the education sector learns to embrace tech, Saar Pikar, managing director at OMERS Growth Equity, outlines edtech’s growing investment appeal.

The pandemic is an opportunity to return to a 'better normal', according to Yoshitaka Todoroki, who oversees PE and infra at the $1.5trn Japanese pension giant.

ATP Private Equity Partners, which invests on behalf of the country's largest pension, will raise third-party capital for the first time.

The $60bn US pension backed several GP-initiated secondaries processes last year and expects to invest in more before the year is out.

Consistency in capital deployment and strategic direction are critical for the pension's PE programme to be at or near its potential, according to the asset class's head Greg Ruiz.