What's Behind the Pension Lifeboat's Double-Digit Performance?
The UK’s Pension Protection Fund has credited its 109.6% funding ratio to a total return of 11.1% on invested assets.
Newsmakers
And the World’s Next Most Influential Investor is…
The 300 Club has unveiled its latest member to aiCIO, and it’s one of our Power 100.
The Power 100 Process
From aiCIO magazine's October issue: Editor-in-Chief Kip McDaniel on the making of the list, and the subtle differences between CIOs and rappers.
USS Pilots New Investment into Heathrow Airport
One of the UK’s largest pension funds will invest £392 million in the UK’s largest airport.
Ontario Teachers’ CEO Named Chancellor of Queen’s University
Jim Leech will serve a three-year term as the Canadian university’s highest officer following his retirement from the C$129.5 billion fund this December.
Pension Fund CEOs’ Room 101
Four UK pension fund CEOs choose their nemeses to banish to George Orwell’s torture chamber.
What Does an Ideal Pension System Look Like?
There are some defining qualities that unite the best pension systems, according to Mercer.
UK Pension Funds Launch Governance Index
Governance structures are occupying more of pension investors’ thoughts than ever before.
Oklahoma Teachers Fires Exec. Director Over Severance Packages
The pension’s former head James Wilbanks had cut administrative staff in an effort to reduce overheads.
CPPIB’s Wiseman on Mistakes, Hockey, and the Birth of the Canadian Model
Mark Wiseman, CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, discusses the C$189 billion fund and his past at Ontario Teachers’.
Fama, Hansen, Shiller Win Nobel Economics Prize for Asset Pricing
Trio whose research changed CIO’s roles the world-over are rewarded with economics’ greatest accolade.
South African CIO Scoops Investment Award
The government pension fund for South Africa’s CIO picked up two awards at the international Investment and Business Leader Awards.
Quebec's Caisse Reappoints Sabia as CEO
Another term at the top for the leader of Canada’s largest asset pools.
Ontario Teachers’ Pushes for Three-Woman Minimum on Boards
The pension fund has proposed a plan to increase the number of women senior executives on TSX-listed companies’ boards.
Pooled Fund Fees Under Pressure
More than a third of European institutional asset managers expect to cut fees in pooled fund vehicles during the next two years.