is this true? afaik they hand over their money and trust the partners to allocate
> and almost all of them are pension funds.
pension funds can go to taxpayers for a bailout and CalPERs has done so before
this is why it is not a great idea for pension funds to play in venture capital...it isn't fair for taxpayers who have to pay out the losses to keep the pensions running
The top 100 pension funds have $17T (trillion) in assets: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-100-biggest-pension-....
The total money supply is estimated at $48T: https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/how-much-money-...
While in theory LPs are “hands off,” in reality you don’t get to raise another fund if you aren’t giving them annual updates that they like. It’s similar to the level of influence VCs have on startups - much more impactful than you’d expect till you are sitting on a board as a founder & realizing you are constantly having to lobby for the direction you are taking the company in.
There’s not a taxpayer-base on earth that can bailout all of their pensions. That’s some clever financial engineering & debt transfer to money printing, but as we are all now aware those global limits have been hit.
Everyone answers to someone.