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Investors ‘More Conservative’ in 2012
Milliman: Rising Interest Rates Boosting Corporate Pension Funding
Corporate pension plan funding has climbed sharply in March fueled by rising interest rates and a consequential drop in liabilities, according to an analysis by Milliman.
he Geek (and Olympian and Professor and Businessman) Who’s Helping Them
Pension Fund to Revamp City Centre
What's the Best Way to Evaluate an Investment Manager?
Investment manager turnover is often the result of investor irrationality and the use of models such as Bayesian statistics could help provide understanding, according to consulting firm Towers Watson.
Northern Trust: Improving US Equity Correlations, Waning Volatility on the Horizon
Institutional investment managers are becoming increasingly positive on the US economy while they remain concerned about macro risks such as the European debt crisis, a new survey by Northern Trust shows.
Mark Gull is a Glass Half Empty Kind of Guy
Paper: Adaptive Market vs. Efficient Market Hypotheses
The adaptive markets hypothesis has gained a stronger footing in the financial world as the traditional paradigms of modern portfolio theory and the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) have proven to be woefully inadequate, according a recent whitepaper by MIT professor Andrew Lo.
Trans-Atlantic Pension Differences Exposed
New York Takes Pharma Company to Task
JP Morgan: Five Trends Shaping the US Economy
Fund Managers Failing SWFs on LDI
Prudential: Where's the Money? Emerging Market Local Debt.
KIC Appoints New CIO
The Korea Investment Corporation has hired its first national chief investment officer, naming Dong-ik (Don) Lee as the new head of alternatives.