Could Royal Mail Pension Cause Flash Crash?
Almost £3 billion in UK equity futures could be about to be unwound into the market – what might the impact be?
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Is Risk Measurement Damaging Long-Term Performance?
Measurement of risk, rather than the management of it, is damaging investors’ prospects of long-term returns and meeting their liabilities.
Paper: Investors Need Better Balance of Investment/Business Sides, Extremes Are Worrisome
Investment firms must do a better job of being both 'asset gatherers' and 'investors' to build and sustain a business, according to Janie Kass of Margolis Advisory Group.
Alternative Investments: Diversifiers or Dangerously Illiquid?
As alternative investments such as hedge funds gain traction among investors, industry sources warn investors to beware of lockups.
Frank Quits Cardano for New Venture
A prominent European risk and liability management specialist has left one of the market-leading firms to launch his own venture in the investment sector.
PIMCO Advises Investors to Embrace Options Market
The options market allows investors to prosper amid uncertainty, Josh Thimons of Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) explains in a recent paper.
Despite World-Class Public Pension System, Worries Abound for Canada Retirement
According to a survey by Towers Watson, 65% of defined
benefit plan sponsors in the Great White North fear long-lasting pension
problems.
European Aging on the Rise
Improving longevity is hastening and set to stretch pension funds liabilities even further.
Is Disclosure Herding Hitting Hedge Funds?
Hedge funds’ information advantage may be eroded by rules on disclosure, research has found.
No. 1 Worry for Pensions for Second Straight Year: Underfunded Liabilities
Once again, underfunded liabilities is the most important risk factor facing US corporate defined benefit plans, according to the 2012 MetLife US Pension Risk Behavior Index survey.
Kay Review: Information Overload Leads to Misguided Investments
Investors are being bombarded with information from listed companies, which is forcing them to make short-term, misguided decisions.
Pension Groups: Solvency II to Hurt Markets
Solvency II would hurt equity markets as well as force the closure of remaining defined benefit pension funds, a pan-European employers and retirement industry group has claimed.
Russell: Pension Liabilities Outpaced Assets in 2011
Liabilities have outpaced the growth in assets for the sixteen publicly listed US corporations with pension liabilities over $20 billion, research by Russell Investments has shown.
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.
European Funds Lose Assets Twice in Three Years
Investors pulled more money than they allocated to Europe-based funds in 2011 for only the second time since the start of the decade.