What's your strategy for creating a unique and strategic posture that helps you find the right managers for your funds?
Andy Mayer, CFA, Senior Investment Officer
Replied Aug 11
Wyoming Retirement System (WRS) invests 100% externally, and we do so in a fairly concentrated manor. In my view, the best thing we can do as allocators is to resist “filling boxes” …
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How are your assets distributed, and how is your team organized to manage them?
Andy Mayer, CFA, Senior Investment Officer
Replied Aug 07
Wyoming Retirement System manages about $10B on behalf of all public employees in Wyoming. The structure of the investment team is for one senior person and one junior person to have coverage respons…
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What geographical regions are most exciting as investors look ahead?
Ahmad Khan, Investment Analyst
Replied Jun 29
While SSMH does not make tactical allocations to dedicated geographies, Southeastern Asia and Latin America are areas with attractive future growth prospects. Additionally, China’s rapidly growing mi…
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How do you balance returns against ESG criteria? In other words, are there different thresholds for an investment’s success depending on its environmental sustainability rating?
Andrew Collins, Director of ESG Investing, SFERS
Replied Jun 23
Our mission is focused on “securing, protecting and prudently investing the pension Trust assets, administering mandated benefit programs, and providing promised benefits”. All our ESG initiatives mu…
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How do LPs who oversee private credit think about risk management in that asset class?
Ahmad Khan, Investment Analyst
Replied Jun 14
While private credit is another part of the market which has become flooded with capital and emerging funds, like public credit investing it ultimately all comes down to strong credit underwriting. F…
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How does venture fit into your organization's overall portfolio?
Philip Rotner
Replied Jun 10
With regard to investment areas, we don't think along the lines of strict asset classes; rather, we talk about investment strategies. People talk about this asset class or that asset class. I find it…
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How has your institution adjusted allocations over the past several years?
Philip Rotner
Replied Jun 10
One of the first things we did at Children's was build a proprietary investment model, what we call a portfolio design model. Some people might call it an asset allocation model. We use the portfolio…
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How do LPs think about impact investing in conjunction with ESG criteria?
Andrew Collins, Director of ESG Investing, SFERS
Replied Jun 03
SFERS does not have a carveout to target “ESG”, “sustainable”, or “impact investing” strategies. However, we are more than open to investing in impact strategies where they otherwise meet our risk/re…
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How do LPs view the current private equity landscape?
Ahmad Khan, Investment Analyst
Replied Jun 01
As institutional assets continue to grow, more investors are flooding private equity funds in search of excess return. While the market has become incredibly frothy, we still see attractive opportuni…
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How is your organization getting involved in socially responsible and impact investment?
David Erickson, Chief Investment Officer
Replied May 26
We’re still focused on trying to be leaders in socially responsible and impact investing. It's hard to do. We don't want to sacrifice returns, yet we want to have measurable impact&mdas…
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