Performance

Despite falling short of last year’s $250m investment target, the US pension said it still plans to allocate 4% of its overall portfolio to the asset class by 2020.

The $2.29bn Aussie super fund singled out its partnership with Whitehelm Capital as ‘key’ to the outperformance.

A rocky energy sector during Q4 2016 hit the firm’s business development company, causing a drop in earnings of nine cents per share.

The California pension’s infrastructure strategy beat its benchmark last quarter, but its overall real assets portfolio took a hit.

With many projects failing to meet output forecasts, underperformance has become the industry’s ‘biggest challenge’, according to the insurance provider.

The $307bn Californian pension underperformed its one-year benchmark by 5.1% in 2015-2106 and generated a small loss over the decade.

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The Swiss private markets investment manager said first-half revenues surged 58% thanks to a record €4.6bn in new commitments, as well as a strong pipeline of investment activity.

Not everybody thinks assets available through the stock market provide the same benefits as their private counterparts.