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Are Active Fees Worth It? Nevada Pension Outperforms with Passive-Heavy Portfolio

“Style analysis is a useful tool that can illuminate how a portfolio operates if people understand how to use it, which Markov and his employees do, Sharpe said in an interview. “I would pay serious attention to the results they produce,” he said.” Justin Mitchell quotes Nobel-prize winner in Economics William Sharpe in his article.

Why Pensions’ Private Equity Returns Could Be a ‘Red Flag’

In this article, FundFire’s Justin Mitchell uses MPI’s FY2023 intra-year estimates of pension performance in his in-depth analysis of impact of private assets on pension returns.

“Public pensions with sizable allocations to private equity tended to weather the last year’s market volatility better than their peers, but that could change in coming months, according to new projections from a top data analytics firm. Markov Processes International’s new “transparency lab” analyzes the publicly reported returns of institutional investors to provide a better understanding of what the actual holdings are.”

Endowments Bearing Crypto Risks Reap Returns

FundFire cites MPI’s analysis of Duke University endowment’s 2021 annual returns, which estimates Duke’s position in Coinbase at approximately $1.3 billion based only on annual endowment returns using proprietary methodology. (FundFire subscription required)