Goodbye to BRIC?
Goldman Sachs has folded its BRIC fund, but emerging markets specialists say investors need not give up on the sector just yet.
Asset Allocation
Back Office Alpha (or How Other Companies Affect Your Equity Portfolio)
There is more to equity investing than kicking the tyres of the target company, research has shown.
SWFs: Activist Investors or Passive Stock Pickers?
Three academics investigate whether the world’s largest investors use their influence to enact change in the companies they hold.
Norway SWF Sets Out Case for Real Estate Expansion
The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund has published research advocating a 15% allocation to property.
Headcount, Pay Up in Private Equity
Private equity is heading into 2016 with more and better paid staff as fundraising targets continue to rise.
Can Bond Managers Cope with Higher Rates?
A lack of manager experience of interest rate hikes is a concern for asset owners, research shows.
Warren Buffett’s Way to Invest for Retirement
The Sage of Omaha’s proposed 90/10 asset allocation could provide superior upside potential and downside protection, a study has found.
The Argument for Private Equity
Well-implemented private investments can improve the funding levels of defined benefit plans, according to Cambridge Associates.
Why Infrastructure Investors Are Losing Their Appetites
Competition, falling yields, and a demand-supply mismatch are halting the sector’s surge in popularity.
The Tech Giant Way to Do 401(k)
Auto-enroll? Nope. Custom TDFs? Wrong again. To build one of the best defined contribution plans in America, Microsoft tossed conventional wisdom in favor of hard data.
Passive Strategies Seen as a License for Passive Shareholding
Investing via indexes pushes shareholders and companies further apart, according to a report by
Hermes Investment Management.
Concentration Beats Diversification, Study Finds
Research into 11,000 institutional portfolios found that specialists outperformed the well-diversified.
The $3 Trillion ETF ‘Boom’
With more invested assets than hedge funds, the ETF industry is seemingly thriving—but not everyone’s buying in.
Oil Price Collapse Fuels SWF Equity Sales
Some of the biggest investors in the world have withdrawn more than $2 billion from European markets since May.
The Case For Alternative Credit
Institutional investors are underutilizing the asset class and missing out on potential returns, according to Towers Watson.