Advisory Start-Up Looks to Capitalize on Insourcing
As direct, in-house investing threatens the external management model, two boutiques have teamed up to advise funds on better places to funnel those assets.
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CERN CIO Steps Aside
The CERN Pension Fund has appointed CEO Theodore Economou as CIO after Gregoire Haenni left the role.
UK Doomsday Scenario: Employers Will Have to Pump £253B into Pensions
Government policy aimed at protecting household savings could force employers to contribute another billions to their pensions over the next 20 years.
Norway Urged to Revolutionise Responsible Investment
The world’s largest SWF must upgrade its responsible investment, its advisers have warned.
UK Pensions Face Inflation-Linkage Reprieve
One of the least well-rewarded risks may be on the way to being removed for UK pensions.
The Truth About Canadian Pensions
Often held up as the pioneers of pension investing, Aon Hewitt’s Global Pension Risk Survey surprisingly revealed Canadian pensions need to do much more de-risking and long-term planning.
Schroders’ Solutions Head Joins USS as Director
Experienced new director for one of the UK’s largest pensions.
Consultants in NY Regulator's Firing Line
Callan Associates, Russell Investments, Towers Watson, Wilshire Associates, and others subpoenaed by the New York financial services superintendent.
Collective DC: The Fight Back Starts Here
Aon Hewitt has argued its modelling shows that collective defined contribution funds would have produced a 33% better return on individual DC funds.
Collective DC is Unsustainable, Say Fund Managers
The shared risk pension model used in the Netherlands—and perhaps soon to be adopted in the UK—is given the thumbs down by asset managers.
Your Next New Asset Class: Impact Investing
Ronnie Cohen, the founder of private equity giant APAX and godfather of venture capital, is on a mission to recruit institutional investors to his cause.
What’s Wrong—and Right—in Australian Superannuation?
A review of aiCIO’s 2013 Chief Investment Officer Summit Australia
Transition Management Must Change, Says Regulator
Some improvements have been made by transition managers, but they must try harder, the UK’s FCA has said.
US Fiscal Showdown Dents Investors’ Confidence
North American investors’ confidence levels moved into negative territory following the US government’s shutdown, according to State Street.
Texas Teachers’ Britt Harris to Receive aiCIO Lifetime Achievement Award
With stints at Verizon Investment Management, Bridgewater Associates, and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Harris’ has spent upwards of 25 years in institutional asset management.