Pension-Risk Transfers: Soaring or Grounded?
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Kip McDaniel on the illusion of the silent pension-risk transfer space.
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Who Knows Best about Hedging?
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Elizabeth Pfeuti reports on why pension boards are leaning more and more on third parties when it comes to LDI.
Accountable Accounting
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Public pensions inch towards de-risking, with a nudge from Moody's. Sage Um reports.
The Liability-Driven Investing Issue… For Now
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Editor-in-Chief Kip McDaniel on aiCIO's "last LDI-labeled" issue.
When LDI Wins, Who Loses?
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Equities and corporate bonds are not the only asset classes to suffer. Charlie Thomas reports.
The Weird and Wonderful of LDI
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Charlie Thomas reports on investors turning to ETFs within their LDI strategies.
Jagdeep Singh Bachher Believes in a De-Risked World
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Alberta Investment Management Corporation's Jagdeep Singh Bachher talks better governance and better risk management.
Around the World with LDI
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: What innovation in liability-driven investing looks
like—according to geographical region. Elizabeth Pfeuti reports.
A Third of US Public Plans Pessimistic About Funding
A Milliman report has found a third of public final salary plans have lowered their actuarial interest rate assumptions, even though it has hit funding levels.
Cardano Challenges Outsourcing Competitors with Five-Year Results
Fiduciary management has paid off for some pensions—will other providers publish their results too?
How to Get the Most from Active Management (And Lower the Active Risks)
A research note from Hewitt EnnisKnupp on how best to implement concentrated active equity strategies.
MassMutual Chalks up First Buyout since Rothesay Life Deal
The Massachusetts-based insurer has announced a sizeable bulk annuity deal with North Carolina manufacturer SPX.
TABB Warns Regulators Further Dark Pool Rules Risk Hurting Investors
Proposed regulatory reforms should encourage transparency, but not at the expense of investor choice, the research firm has argued.
Good Governance Leads to 14% Outperformance
Research from PIRC and Inalytics has indicated that investing in companies with good governance significantly benefits your returns.
Wyoming Pension Plan Hires New CIO
Sam Masoudi, former managing director of Tulane’s endowment fund, will serve as CIO to the $7 billion defined benefit plan from December 2013.