Increasingly, asset allocation models are treating Private Credit as a strategic asset class with its own clearly defined profile, rather than an implementation solution within a fixed income or alternatives portfolio.

• Private Markets
• Private Debt
• Portfolio Design
• Strategic Asset Allocation

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M&A activity, such as the recent news of the combination of the Columbia Threadneedle and PATRIZIA UK property funds fits a neat narrative.

• ESG
• Private Markets
• Real Assets
• Real Estate

Read more: bfinance Platform: real assets, UK open-ended property funds in five charts

While many asset owners continue to debate the role of impact investing, Pensioenfonds PGB has already made its choice. The Dutch pension fund has decided that new private markets investments should target measurable impact alongside financial returns, beginning with European impact direct lending.

• Private Markets
• Private Debt
• Investor Spotlight
• Impact

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Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) (KWAP) is Malaysia’s public sector pension fund and a key government-linked investment institution. Over the past decade it has built a quantitative equity programme that began as a research-led pilot allocation and has matured into a live, in-house mandate within the fund’s domestic equity portfolio.

• Equity
• Investor Spotlight
• Portfolio Design
• Strategic Asset Allocation

Read more: Investor Spotlight: KWAP - navigating technological shifts in quant equities