Pension Funds

Tokyo’s call for its pension funds to boost domestic allocations could unleash a flow of trillions of yen into government bonds and equities.

To avoid repeating past portfolio mistakes, insurers and pension funds are imposing strict analytical frameworks, asking for cross-factor analysis from their partners.

State Street has renewed its mandate with Korea’s $1.1 trillion National Pension Service (NPS), backing the fund's global expansion and total portfolio approach (TPA) strategies.

GIC makes $30bn hedge fund push; HSBC sells $2bn insurance unit to Allianz; La Caisse commits $231 million to Go Farm; and more.

Allocators are reshaping governance structures, centralising liquidity buffers and adopting multidimensional risk models to navigate market complexity.

South Korea's SWF KIC opens an office in Tokyo; Danantara merges four asset managers; CEFC backs Tasmania forestry deal; and more.

The fund's manager warns that liquidity risk — not AI concentration — may be the greater structural threat to Korean institutional portfolios as private market allocations expand.

Korean pensions must endure volatility and embrace a total portfolio approach (TPA) after painful lessons from 2008 exposed the cost of abandoning long-term conviction.

Canada’s second-largest pension investor sees the country as an active opportunity market across public equities and digital infrastructure, with corporate reforms potentially opening future private equity deals.

The Canadian pension giant’s dual-track investment into CtrlS combines a minority stake with a hyperscale development JV, deepening its India exposure as AI and cloud demand accelerates.

The Dutch pension investor’s $300 million cornerstone commitment to a Seoul-focused rental housing fund extends a regional push into living assets, reinforcing its megatrend conviction.

With Project Odin complete, Aware Super says liquidity is evolving from a defensive safeguard into a driver of long‑term capital deployment.