March 11, 2013
Equities make up 79% of the average FTSE 100/250 company’s default defined contribution portfolio, according to Schroders research.
March 8, 2013
Tesco pension chief asks, are investments labelled as private equity just a way of taking a larger cut?
March 7, 2013
Return expectations have risen by more than a quarter among institutional investors over the past year, according to research from Credit Suisse.
March 7, 2013
Not all institutional investors are de-risking.
March 6, 2013
Everyone is talking about investors’ opportunities as banks deleverage, but is there another way of making a buck from the banks?
March 5, 2013
Asian markets can be attractive for investors, if they know how to place their money.
March 1, 2013
Investors have been adding to their risk profiles, but markets have been “dialling up” some of their own.
March 1, 2013
Institutional investors are increasingly rehoming hedge funds from the ‘alternatives’ bucket into asset classes based on their exposures, J.P. Morgan has found.
February 28, 2013
There is a difference between “cheap” and “good value” – which best describes the current state of emerging markets?
February 21, 2013
The president of the Government Pension Investment Fund has suggested a potential boost in allocations to Japanese stocks.
February 20, 2013
Forget the Great Rotation; investors are still clinging to high-yield bonds at any price.
February 15, 2013
Confidence is back in the market and hedge funds are limbering up for leverage.
February 13, 2013
A low-return environment has prevailed for the last 24 months, so investors have looked beyond the usual asset classes for yield.
February 12, 2013
Smaller healthcare providers especially are holding too much cash and fixed income to make decent returns, according to a white paper from the Commonfund Institute.
February 12, 2013
It may have suffered a “lost decade”, but things are looking up in the Land of the Rising Sun.