As executive director of France’s publicly owned pension fund, FRR, Antoine de Salins is more concerned with the long-term investment horizon than the quick fixes being pushed by product providers.

AP1’s CEO Johan Magnusson explains why the fund is reducing its active management in favour of strategic asset allocation, and discusses the difficult role of Sweden’s national buffer funds.

According to Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild’s Alexandre Col, ‘greedy’ investors only have themselves to blame for being trapped in the fundamentally illiquid accounts known as sidepockets. By Henry Smith.

President of Brazil’s private equity body Luis Eugenio Figueiredo says the sector has gone from strength to strength, largely due to its domestic focus and not being based on leverage. By Spencer Anderson.

Despite the volatile climate, Bahrain’s state-owned pension fund plans to spend €1.4bn in developed markets. But home is where the heart is. By Henry Smith.

Jeffrey Molitor at Vanguard Global Investors believes that a key part of any strategy for dealing with sovereign wealth funds is to treat each one individually, and that calls for greater transparency are likely to fall on deaf ears. By Spencer Anderson.

Leen Meijaard explains the four strategic priorities that are driving Blackrock’s approach to the long-term trends in the institutional market. By Henry Smith.

Jacques-Philippe Marson, CEO at BNP Paribas Securities Services believes that investing more in new technology sets the firm apart.By Henry Smith.

Nurturing relationships has always been an important part of private equity investment. Pantheon stresses that this applies as much within the partnership as it does with underlying managers and end investors. By Martin Steward.

Don’t flinch from your long-term private equity strategy when the going gets tough, says HarbourVest’s top man in Europe: the nature of the business makes it risky to time the market. By Martin Steward.

Barings’ investment philosophy has seen it avoid the worst of the credit volatility, and CIO Marino Valensise intends to keep treading carefully. By Nat Mankelow.

Jon Little, vice chairman of BNY Mellon Asset Management, points the way to China and beyond. By Henry Smith.

Stuart Stephen, who runs Lloyds TSB’s pension fund, hasn’t shied away from addressing the difficult issues in his first 12 months in the job. By Nat Mankelow.

Little was made of the decision when 12 months ago Lloyds TSB bank recruited Stuart Stephen, the previous pensions chief at Barclays bank and Sainsbury’s, to run its £16.1bn (€20.2bn, $31.6bn) pension fund. Since the move, the Scottish-born pensions director has quietly got on with tackling thorny issues – how to make defined contribution products more attractive to younger staff, tackling the funding gap, and ramping up governance and best practice – for the UK’s fifth biggest bank and a top ten UK pension fund by asset size.

The director of the World Bank’s pension plan warns schemes of the complexity of investing in hedge funds and that governance structures may soon be “overwhelmed”. By Martin Steward.