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CPP evolves total portfolio approach

Reported by Top1000funds
May 28, 2024· 2 min read
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Key Takeaways
  • • CPP Investments' title page on Top1000funds.com carries only a headline, "CPP evolves total portfolio approach," and no body text, so the specific details of the evolution cannot be confirmed from the primary source.
  • • The page is a listing of several Top1000funds.com features, including Australian Retirement Trust's real estate strategy, ATP's external governance review, TfL Pension Fund's Bridgewater mandate, CalPERS' total portfolio approach (TPA) rollout, and LPPI's AI risk management.
  • • The CalPERS item is the most directly related to the headline: CalPERS adopted a total portfolio approach in July, and its new deputy CIO for private markets says it will not disrupt private equity commitment pacing.
  • • Other items on the page address private real estate valuation, pension governance reform in Denmark, benchmark design, and AI exposure in UK local government pensions.
Summary
The primary source for this story is a Top1000funds.com page titled "CPP evolves total portfolio approach." The page itself contains no article body. Instead, it lists a set of recent features from the site, and the headline does not appear with supporting text, so the details of any change at CPP Investments cannot be verified from this source.

The related content on the page is nonetheless relevant to the total portfolio approach (TPA) theme. The most direct item concerns CalPERS, whose July adoption of TPA, according to Anton Orlich, the fund's newly appointed deputy chief investment officer for private markets, will not impede the private equity strategy launched in 2022. Orlich argued that short-term relative-value decisions under TPA would be expressed in liquid markets rather than through oscillating private markets commitments. He also described the asset class's four-year transformation in an interview with Top1000funds.com.

Other features on the page cover adjacent governance and allocation themes. Australian Retirement Trust real estate head Mark Lee said investors were wrong to treat real estate as an easy asset class, and that the A$20 billion portfolio is set to double in five years. Danish pension ATP received recommendations from an external review committee, documented in a 536-page report after an 18-month review, to reduce risk, set formal benchmarks, and cut private markets exposure. Transport for London Pension Fund reported that its bespoke benchmark in a Bridgewater Pure Alpha mandate had added hundreds of millions of pounds, and that it had reduced equities to 18 per cent of the fund. LPPI's Richard Tomlinson discussed managing AI exposure in the context of growing AI bubble risk.

Because the primary source does not describe the CPP Investments development in any detail, readers seeking specifics on the total portfolio approach change should consult CPP Investments' own disclosures or the full Top1000funds.com article.

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