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CAAT sheds public equity

Canada’s fully funded Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Fund will move 15 per cent of its assets from public equities to real assets and private equity, following a review.

Sarah RundellApril 7, 2017

Better beta bets pay off for UTAM

The $6.6 billion University of Toronto Asset Management made some significant active tilts last year resulting in the return on the university’s main portfolio exceeding target return by about 10 per cent. Amanda White spoke to president and chief executive, Bill Moriarty. Last year was a reasonably easy environment in which to make better […]

Amanda WhiteApril 16, 2014

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In-house not for
every house: WSIB

While the trend for most large institutional investors is to insource asset management, the $85-billion Washington State Investment Board (WSIB) has decided to take a different path. Much-cited CEM Benchmarking research shows that funds with internal-management platforms are better performers after cost, and this is largely driven by the lower costs of internal management. Many […]

Amanda WhiteSeptember 14, 2012