Katey Bogue, Head of Private Fund Solutions at Nasdaq, recently sat down with Shar Kassam, COO of Nasdaq Asset Owner Solutions, for a conversation about emerging managers in the private markets. Shar previously served as Deputy CIO at Texas ERS where she conducted due diligence for manager recommendations in public equity, private equity, and hedge funds, including those that were part of pension plan’s emerging manager program.
Nasdaq is proud to announce that qualifying investors can now receive free access to private fund manager diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) data via the Nasdaq eVestment platform. The release of this data will increase transparency for asset owners who are increasingly looking for visibility into the DEI efforts of private fund managers, enabling them to view DEI data firm-by-firm.
In December 2021, users of Market Lens accessed 2,370 unique private equity and private debt documents. Market Lens is a searchable database of intelligence, documents, and mandates from more than 8,000 public and corporate pension plans. Investment recommendations were the most popular type of document and represented 31.6% of all document views in the month.
In this blog post we explore Contra Costa County ERA’s 2022 strategic plan and discuss how private fund managers can use the insights from the plan to inform their fundraising process and target the right LPs for new commitments.
Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions hosted a virtual event which featured several content sessions designed to help LPs and GPs navigate the complexities of today’s private markets. In the keynote panel of the event, Nasdaq’s head of Private Fund Solutions, Katey Bogue spoke with leading institutional investors from Desjardins Group and Nykredit Asset Management about ESG.
Digital infrastructure is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after strategies within real assets for public pension plans. Digital infrastructure funds invest in the critical assets that help power and support our increasingly data-driven and Internet-connected world. Funds invest in assets such as cell towers, fiber optics lines & network, and data centers.
The mercurial nature and uncertainty of the markets in 2020 left many industry observers wondering how public pension plan allocators would approach commitments to private markets funds in 2021. Crossing the midpoint of the year affords us the opportunity to pause and look back at how it has progressed in terms of private equity fundraising while also looking to the future to see what the rest of the year may hold for fundraising GPs.
After 2020, which saw London-based CVC Capital Partners take top spot for capital raised from US-based pension plans, data through the mid-year mark of 2021 from eVestment shows that interest in European fund managers and strategies remains robust.
As of 6/30/2021 the plans tracked by eVestment had reported 2021 commitments of over $10.3 billion to European strategies. Interest in the continent is spurred in part by pension plans seeking differentiated strategies from the crowded and frothy US market and more positive outlooks from consultants.
Katey Bogue, Head of Private Fund Solutions at Nasdaq, recently sat down with Kasper Wichmann, an experienced LP investor for a wide ranging conversation about communication in the private markets.
In June 2021 public pension plans reported $6.45 billion in commitments to private equity funds according to data tracked by Nasdaq eVestment. The total represents 111 commitments from 37 pension plans. June was the third highest month for commitments in 2021 trailing March ($10.8 billion) and April ($9.0 billion).