Research released by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) reveals that the rapidly changing regulatory environment within Latin America is enabling greater institutional investment in private equity.
Amid negative economic news, institutional investment managers surveyed by Northern Trust solidified a trend toward risk aversion in the second quarter of 2011.
A growing number of UK pension plans have expressed concern over the increasing longevity of plan members, according to MetLife’s Pension Risk Behaviour Index Study.
The chairman of Dutch pension fund manager Algemene Pensioen Group wants to lessen regulations that have prevented the firm from reclaiming Dutch pension assets whose management has fallen into foreign hands, the Financial Times has reported.
The five endowment funds of the University of Texas -- which total more than $20 billion -- have enjoyed returns of about 20% for the 12 months ended June 30.
United Continental Holdings Inc., the parent of United Airlines, is set to begin making its first payment to the PBGC, repaying up to $500 million in eight equal installments of $62.5 million.
According to Deputy Mayor Robert Steel, New York City should put more cash into international equities and fixed income, inflation-protected bonds, commodities, currencies, and real estate to improve returns.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s announced yesterday that it may downgrade US Treasury bonds from their current AAA rating if the large-looming debt ceiling problem is not resolved.
Japanese corporate pension plans will likely triple their allocations to alternative assets as they seek to boost returns in anticipation of the retirement of their rapidly aging beneficiaries, Credit Suisse has said.
In an uncommon partnership, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada joined together with buyout firm Apax Partners in a leveraged buyout of Kinetic Concepts Inc.
Pacific Investment Management Co. raised the allocation of U.S. Treasuries in its $242.7 billion Total Return Fund from 5% to 8%, indicating a softening of Bill Gross’ aggressively short position on Treasuries.
A new report by BNY Mellon and consultant Strategic Insight -- which analyzes the factors fueling the rapid expansion of the ETF market and how asset managers can profit from the expansion -- predicts that ETF assets will reach $2 trillion by 2015.
Britain's Office for Budget Responsibility has revealed that the total liabilities for the pensions of teachers, policemen and civil servants totals £1.13 trillion.
