Newsmakers

If there are two overriding trends amongst corporate pensions, they are investment outsourcing and liability-driven investing (LDI). Sun Chemical, choosing to focus on its core competency, is doing both.

John Johnson, the interim chief investment officer of the $6.5 billion Wyoming Retirement System, says thoughts of market volatility cause him many a restless night's sleep.  

Larger Australian asset pools will lead superannuation chiefs to reconsider their investment options and dump domestic providers, a new study has found.

Higher energy prices are contributing to soaring commodities prices, as they "sow the seeds of their own self destruction," a recent paper by Morgan Stanley Investment Management asserts. 

For pension plan sponsors that have a view that interest rates will rise and express this view by having a duration of assets significantly shorter than the duration of liabilities, swaptions can be used to more efficiently express this short duration “hedge later” mindset, according to Legal & General Investment Management America. 

Only 9% of more than 5,000 investment strategies achieve the highest environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings within Mercer’s Global Investment Manager Database (GIMD), and the firm sees both innovation and opportunity for improvement.

China's SWF prefers infrastructure and long-term projects over Eurozone debt.

The Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois is looking for external expertise in improving its current securities lending program in the wake of market volatility. 

JP Morgan Asset Management has added to its strategy group with Roberts Grava.