Paper: Norway Sovereign Fund Offers Best Insights to Investors on SRI
Institutional investors should look toward the sovereign wealth funds of Norway and New Zealand in their quest for sustainable investing, according to a recent paper.
Newsmakers
Dallas’ Public Pension: The Mutant Offspring of a Well-Funded Corporate Plan and an Aggressive Endowment
The Profile: How Dallas’ city pension is nearly 100% funded in the age of public plan debacles.
Letter From the Editor-in-Chief: Defined Benefit/Magazines Are Not Dead Yet
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Like printed magazines, the demise of defined benefit has long been predicted. We're still waiting for those prognosticators to be right.
Letter From the Managing Editor: Deepening Our Global Footprint
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Letter from the managing editor on aiCIO's new London-based hire, Elizabeth Pfeuti.
Column: Here Comes Customization…
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: The old world—where portfolio managers could scale, where client service was somehow less about intellect and more about bonhomie, where alpha was always just within reach—was a vastly preferable one for asset managers.
Pension Funds v. Private Equity?
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Pension funds are riding their private equity partners hard. Should they be? John Keefe reports.
Ewart Williams Believes in Sovereign Fund Efficiencies
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Ewart Williams, Director of Investments at the Heritage and Stabilization Fund, Trinidad and Tobago, runs the Caribbean nation’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) in addition to being governor of its central bank.
Cees Dert Asks “Where Do You Want to Be?”
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Cees Dert and his team ask the trustees of the Dutch ABN Amro pension scheme where they want to be, and only after they have answered does he reveal how he plans to get them there.
Mining Manager Bulls&!t
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: A public pension trustee uses his past interrogation experience to weed out potentially suspect asset managers.
Failing Unconventionally—Or Not at All?
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Risk parity, although gaining prominence in the United States, is a different beast across the Atlantic.
Reluctant Voices
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: State Street's transition management problems have been revealed, but ConvergEx will soon take the lead as the posterboy for the industry's misdeeds. Reported by Kip McDaniel and Elizabeth Pfeuti.
Investment Outsourcing, Fiduciary Management Fails to Please
Investment outsourcing and fiduciary management are getting top marks with only half of their audience, despite a growing client base.
Pensions Join Push for Female Directors
Public pension funds add their voice to demands for better female representation on UK company boards.
Study: CalPERS, CalSTRS vs. California's Local Pensions
California's local pension systems have over $130 billion in unfunded liabilities, a number that has been largely ignored as the state's unfunded liability has historically stolen the spotlight.
Paper on Equities Asks: If Not Now, When?
The stage is set for investors who pursue US equities to deliver active returns, a paper by UBS Global Asset Management asserts.