Institutional Investor

Réal Desrochers, managing investment director of the US's largest public pension’s private equity programme, will leave on Friday.

Former Ford Foundation director Clinton Stevenson will oversee the division which works across asset classes.

The $311bn pension fund’s former CFO left last month for a similar position at her alma mater in British Columbia.

The firm's best performing secondaries vehicle by investment return is its 2000-vintage Lexington Capital Partners IV, documents from a US pension show.

Five observations on Canada’s largest private equity investor and its approach to the secondaries market.

The Canadian pension giant's head of secondaries and co-investments Michael Woolhouse tells us why the organisation is positioning itself as more than just a provider of LP capital.

The US's largest public pension will engage Meketa, its real assets advisor, as its private equity consultant for the remainder of PCA’s contract period ending June 2020.

The pension's secondaries target allocation was as much as 10% of its total portfolio last year, documents from advisor Hamilton Lane show.

Low pricing deterred a sale of certain 'illiquid' assets held in a portfolio the US pension began managing in January.

Performance details of the alternative investment firm's secondaries programme were also disclosed in a document presented to a US pension.