The latest Credit Suisse Annual Hedge Fund Investor Survey has revealed that a focus on risk management issues is continuing to grow, with investors increasingly concerned about high standards of due diligence.
Wang Jianxi, executive vice president of the China Investment Corp., has said he is awaiting a government fund injection while warning about the inflationary problems in emerging markets, calling them "serious."
Posco, the world’s third-biggest steelmaker, and South Korea’s National Pension Service, will buy a combined 15% stake in a Brazilian niobium producer with a group of Japanese companies.
Patrick Thomson, head of J.P. Morgan Asset Management's sovereign wealth fund client group, notes that he sees opportunity in real estate and that as a long-term investor, conflict in the Middle East has not spurred huge changes in investment policy.
According to a report from Russell Investments, public corporations with worldwide defined benefit plan liabilities of more than $20 billion each experienced a large increase in both assets and liabilities in 2010.
Even with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed public pension reforms, Moody’s Investors Service warned that the state's pension system, which is already the 7th-lowest funded in the US, will continue to deteriorate.
The top 10 hedge funds, measured by total dollar returns since they started, made profits for their investors of $28 billion in the second half of last year.
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO of the Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO), told CNBC that the US economy must learn how to survive independently, without artificial stimulus.
As pension funds are demanding greater investment in catastrophe bonds, Europe’s second-biggest insurer has revealed that its funds investing in catastrophic bonds may more than triple.
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, which earned a 12% return last year as its net assets grew to $53.3 billion, is seeking to compete against banks and insurers to administer the new pooled registered pension plans (PRPPs).
New research in the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2010 by professors from London Business School has shown that over the long run, equities have outperformed inflation, bonds and cash in every market examined.
