The managers of a growing wall of money are continuously searching for investment
opportunities. The financialization literature describes how this mobile capital puts pressure …

A Review of the Active Management of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global Page 1 A
Review of the Active Management of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global Rob …

This paper explores private equity real estate fund performance and voluntary
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures. Using data from the National …

I study investment allocations of US public pensions in private equity, and trace their
investments to the ultimate micro assets--the target firms which private equity funds invest in …

Infrastructure investment is increasingly important for institutional investors. This paper
focuses on pension fund allocations to infrastructure, using the CEM Benchmarking …

Alternative assets represent an increasing share of pension fund assets, and real estate is a
cornerstone of that allocation. This paper investigates the trends in pension fund real estate …

We document that defined benefit pension plans with significant holdings in private equity
(PE) earn substantially greater returns than plans with small holdings, in both the 1990s and …

In this thesis, we consider three non-trivial problems of risk allocation and apply approaches
from theoretical finance and risk management to address several policy debates from a …

Purpose The Belgium Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) market was created primarily to
facilitate a transparent, professionally managed and fiscally efficient market, providing …

The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global represents a rare instance of a people
deciding that the financial proceeds from extracting a country's non-renewable resources …