aiCIO held an intensive half-day summit to explore how Australian asset owners can better protect themselves in the current market environment and beyond through risk-balanced approaches to investing.
Carol Moody was named senior portfolio manager for investment compliance and operational risk at the $229.4 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).
From aiCIO Magazine's 2011 Liability-Driven Investing Issue: Liability-driven investing, like aviator sunglasses and sweatbands, is cool. We just forgot about it for a generation.
From aiCIO Magazine's 2011 Liability-Driven Investing Issue: Hit by the unanticipated volatility of plans’ funded status and a swath of regulatory and accounting rule changes, plan sponsors, investment managers, and consultants have been forced to pay greater attention to plan assets in terms of liabilities.
After investments beat benchmarks for three straight years, Texas’s public university endowment has shelled out $7.2 million in bonuses to 29 managers.
The design and governance of investment management institutions is actually more important than honoring the principle of fiduciary duty which, claims Gordon Clark, a professor at Oxford University and author of a new academic paper.
Responding to accusations by state and federal officials of defrauding public pension funds of foreign exchange transactions, BNY Mellon is offering its clients an alternative pricing model.
As institutions increasingly seek to mitigate volatility in their portfolios, new investing strategies such as risk parity and low-volatility equities gain prominence. Consultants, however, remain skeptical.
While Australia has ranked by many measures as having the strongest pension system globally, its super funds have suffered losses due to market volatility.
As volatility pummels currency-trading strategies, the world's largest currency hedge fund, FX Concepts, is hemorrhaging money -- and they're losing people as they're losing capital.
