How NPS’s portfolio extolls alternatives

The state pension fund’s investment returns fell in 2018, but its investments into alternatives helped offset a much worse drop

THE NPS CASE IS EVIDENCE TO ANY INVESTMENT COMMITTEE THEY SHOULD DIVERSIFY MORE INTO THE ALTERNATIVES BUCKET. THIS IS THE PERFECT LIVE ADVERT FOR THEM” Asia-Pacific head of US-based asset owner

BY HANS POULSEN
ASSET OWNERS


IT’S NEVER GOING to be easy for a flagship state pension fund to report that its investments lost money for the year. So it proved for National Pension Service of Korea (NPS), which was subject to an array of criticism in the media when, at the end of...

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