18th March, 2021
The US’s second largest PPF, the US$287 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), is ramping up its exposure to the US real estate through its model of fostering co-investment platforms.
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16th February, 2021
ADQ is a state-owned investor that is set to become a name on everyone’s lips as it begins its push into venture capital and evolves from a holding company dominated by infrastructure assets to a sovereign wealth fund in its own right.
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13th January, 2021
The first month of 2021 is turning out to be a bumper month for investment by state-owned investors with the volume and value of transactions set to rival the busiest months of 2020 - and potentially see the return of activity to pre-pandemic norms.
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5th January, 2021
Canadian public pension fund CPP Investments was the first state-owned investor to accelerate out of the starting blocks with a US$200 million commitment to a US$1 billion logistics real estate joint venture in Indonesia.
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1st December, 2020
APG has become one of the world’s most active and largest pension managers with over USD 630 billion, behind only Japan’s GPIF and South Korea’s NPS. At the end of October, APG and NPS entered into a formal MoU to scout for private assets globally, starting with a Portuguese toll road and an Australian student housing portfolio. We got to know more about the initiative firsthand from Gert Dijkstra and Genio van der Schaft, who run APG’s Global Peers & Networks from Amsterdam and Hong Kong, respectively.