The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, among other pension funds, has been vocal about making India part of their long-term investment strategy.
CalPERS hasn’t announced it from the top of the hills, but the numbers reveal that the country’s largest public pension fund is also taking considerable interest in India.
CalPERS increased its exposure to India by over 33 percent in 2014.
From VC Circle:
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the top public pension funds in the US, saw its exposure to assets linked to Indian currency rise by over a third to $1.7 billion in the fiscal ended on June 30, 2014 as compared to $1.27 billion in the year ago period, according to the annual financial report of the company.
Almost all of this was due to changes in fair value of assets in the equity securities bucket from $885 million to $1.3 billion. The value of the real assets, representing primarily real estate assets, shrunk marginally.
This data represent investment securities of all CalPERS managed funds, including derivative instruments that are subject to Indian rupee foreign currency risk.
It did not list any quantum against PE assets in India and it could not be ascertained if this is due to its forex hedging over dollar denominated offshore funds or it has actually disassociated itself with India-focused PE funds.
But CalPERS does counts itself as an investor in several global PE funds investing in India including some in their regional funds. These include Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, TPG, Clearstone, SAIF Partners, etc.
CalPERS manages over $300 billion worth of pension assets.
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