Hoopp CIO outlines Asia private markets strategy

Canada's eighth-biggest retirement fund, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (Hoopp), is eyeing greater portfolio exposure to Asia, notably through private equity funds and co-investments and, eventually, real estate. In the second of this two-part series, its chief investment officer Jeff Wendling tells AsianInvestor why the C$78 billion ($59 billion) fund is keen to employ homegrown Asian general partners. “In Asia, we’re not looking to use the big US private equity firms,”…