Taiwan pensions to treble alternatives exposure

Taiwan’s new Bureau of Labour Funds (BLF) – set up to integrate regulatory and investment oversight of the country’s public pension funds – is formulating its first investment plan and aims to finalise it by November. “We’re now reviewing the asset allocation of our funds and trying to diversify their investment for 2015,” says Liu Li-Ju, deputy director-general of BLF, who oversees the fund’s foreign portfolio. “We will review their portfolio and decide whether they should add mo…