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Calpers to direct $25bn to green private market investments

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Calpers, the US’s biggest public pension plan, will pour more than $25bn into green-related private market investments, in one of the largest commitments by a major fund to unlisted climate assets.

The giant US pension group is examining the private equity, real estate and infrastructure markets, particularly in Asia and Europe, as it looks to deploy the capital over the next six years, a senior executive told the Financial Times.

“Those are the ones [private market assets] that have very evident climate investment opportunities,” said Peter Cashion, Calpers’ managing investment director, sustainable investments.

The comments are the first time Calpers has publicly revealed how it plans to spend an extra $53bn it committed last November to an expanded low…

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