Bip Capital questions whether total portfolio approach drives reported return advantage

• Total portfolio investing’s reported performance advantage may reflect institutional capabilities rather than the allocation framework itself.
• CalPERS shifted its roughly $620 billion portfolio to the approach on July 1, 2026, becoming the first US pension fund to adopt it.
• The framework uses a 75/25 equity-and-bond reference portfolio with a 400-basis-point active risk limit.
• Research covering 26 major funds found adopters outperformed strategic asset allocation users by 1.3 percentage points annually over 10 years.
• Private markets managers must demonstrate portfolio-level contributions rather than simply beat asset-class benchmarks; smaller investors may lack capabilities to operate the framework.

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