ARGUS / ALLOCATOR INTELLIGENCE
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What the world's largest investors teach us about asset allocation

Every week we read one institutional investor's own disclosures, a pension, endowment, or sovereign fund, and pull out what a family office or RIA can actually use. One page, no filler.

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Foundation North issue preview
No. 25Community TrustUnder $10B
Foundation North · NZ$1.9B

Foundation North's whole risk policy is three numbers

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NZ Government Superannuation Fund issue preview
No. 24Closed PensionUnder $10B
NZ Government Superannuation Fund · NZ$5.8B

This fund does not employ a single investor

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Paul Hamlyn Foundation issue preview
No. 23FoundationUnder $10B
Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £996M

A quarter of Paul Hamlyn's real return target goes on fees

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Oxford Endowment Fund issue preview
No. 22University EndowmentUnder $10B
Oxford Endowment Fund · £6.7B

Oxford's spending formula can never pay less than last year

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Environment Agency Pension Fund issue preview
No. 21Local Gov PensionUnder $10B
Environment Agency Pension Fund · £5.1B

The Environment Agency fund stopped trying to win

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Lehigh University issue preview
No. 20University EndowmentUnder $10B
Lehigh University · $1.95B

Ten years of private equity bought Lehigh 170 basis points a year

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Dallas Police & Fire issue preview
No. 19City PensionUnder $10B
Dallas Police & Fire · $2.3B

Dallas Police and Fire has spent nine years getting out of private assets

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Saudi PIF issue preview
No. 18Sovereign Fund
Saudi PIF · ~US$905B

PIF grew to $900 billion while returning 5.8% a year

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Gates Foundation Trust issue preview
No. 17Foundation
Gates Foundation Trust · $89B

The Gates Trust spends 10% a year, so it owns almost nothing illiquid

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UC Investments issue preview
No. 16Endowment & Pension
UC Investments · $235.9B

UC Investments' best real estate call was the term sheet

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ADIA issue preview
No. 15Sovereign Fund
ADIA · not disclosed

ADIA publishes bands, not weights

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Texas TRS issue preview
No. 14State Pension
Texas TRS · $233B

Texas Teachers' asset mix adds up to 104% on purpose

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Australia's Future Fund issue preview
No. 13Sovereign Fund
Australia's Future Fund · A$290B

The Future Fund stopped trusting bonds to cushion a crash

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Ontario Teachers' issue preview
No. 12Provincial Pension
Ontario Teachers' · C$303B

Ontario Teachers' two private books went opposite ways

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NZ Super Fund issue preview
No. 11Sovereign Fund
NZ Super Fund · NZ$94B

NZ Super measures every active bet against doing nothing

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ABP issue preview
No. 10National Pension
ABP · €568B

ABP invests against what it owes, not against an index

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GPIF issue preview
No. 09National Pension
GPIF · ~US$1.9T

GPIF runs $1.9 trillion in four equal buckets

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Temasek issue preview
No. 08Sovereign Fund
Temasek · S$518B

Half of Temasek's money is now in private assets

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Harvard issue preview
No. 07University Endowment
Harvard · $56.9B

Harvard runs a third of its money in hedge funds

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Norway / NBIM issue preview
No. 06Sovereign Fund
Norway / NBIM · ~US$2.1T

The world's biggest fund skips private equity on purpose

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CPP Investments issue preview
No. 05National Pension
CPP Investments · C$793B

CPP trailed its benchmark by 5 points, and calls that the plan

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CalPERS issue preview
No. 04State Pension
CalPERS · $637B

CalPERS is taking 40% of its money private

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GIC issue preview
No. 03Sovereign Fund
GIC · est. ~US$800B+

GIC judges itself on 20-year real returns, not a good year

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Yale issue preview
No. 02University Endowment
Yale · $44.1B

The model's inventor becomes a seller

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SURS issue preview
No. 01State Pension
SURS · ~$24.5B

The pension that buys crash insurance on purpose

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Put this lens on your own deals

The institutions above spend millions benchmarking managers and pressure-testing marks. Argus does the same for family offices and RIAs: we read the fund documents and benchmark private deals and funds so you know what you are actually buying.

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