With New Leadership, Norway SWF May Broaden Investments
Following new investment leadership at Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the oil fund may have more flexibility to invest in new asset classes such as roads, gas pipelines, and unlisted shares.
Asset Allocation
No. 1 Worry for European Investors: Interest-Rate Risk
A new study shows European investors rank interest-rate risk as a top threat to their investments, followed by a stock market fall and Europe's sovereign debt crisis.
US Private Equity Hangover Persists, Cambridge Associates Says
A report by consultancy Cambridge Associates has found that private equity funds in the United States have $376 billion in leftover capital, called "overhang."
Seeking Allocation Target, Florida Pension Ups Hedge Funds
Aiming to achieve its 6% allocation target, the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA) has added two new hedge funds.
Interrogation: Anne Martin Thinks Liquidity Is Key
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Olympic rower and David Swensen Protégé Martin is applying the Yale model of investing at the Wesleyan University Endowment—with a few tweaks.
Survey Finds Climate Change a Growing Concern for Investors
A survey found that the vast majority of pension funds, foundations, and asset managers view climate change as both a risk and an opportunity.
The Wild West v. The Wild Wild West
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Industry observers note that smart investors would position themselves well by achieving further emerging diversification through a frontier market allocation.
The UTIMCO Bullion Buy: Prescient, or Political?
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Was the gold purchase by the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) a prescient investment, or a political statement?
American Frontier
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: From a foreign perspective, is America the next great investment opportunity? David Pawsey reports.
The End of the 3 and 30
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Hedge funds of funds have been called a “cancer on the institutional investor world.” For the large asset owner, is it time for this cancer to perish? Kip McDaniel reports.
Establishment Series: The Who's Who, ESG Investing Edition
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Environmental, social, and governance investing has gained traction, yet it is still not exactly mainstream.
The One-Stop Pension Shop. Really.
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: The trend of full-service banks forming their pension-dedicated units has accelerated since the global financial crisis.
Good Investment? Yes. Asset Class? No.
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: While some say China's economy may be robust enough for the country to become its own asset class, many consultants and other asset managers disagree.
Your Largest Unmanaged Exposure
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: The problem with currency exposure and its potentially disastrous effect on portfolio valuations lies as much with the way chief investment officers and their Boards think about the problem—the “grammar used to define currency risk.
Alaska!
On the day that CIO Jeff Scott has announced his resignation from the Alaska Permanent Fund, aiCIO magazine offers a sneak peak at how the oil-rich state is leading the way toward a new method of asset allocation – and how it has brought in some of the world’s most powerful money managers to do its bidding. Joe Flood reports.