The global financial crisis of 2008/2009 has led to disillusionment with traditional approaches to diversification and has resulted in the growing popularity of hedging as a tool for lowering risk, a recent paper by BNY Asset Management claims.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has been called in to review the Irish pension system as the Eurozone nation flounders in recession.
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.
Both the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global and Yale University's endowment -- run by the popular David Swensen -- have emerged as industry pillars in asset management, and a new paper compares and scrutinizes their reputations.
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.
The operational complexity of investing in alternatives can represent a practical impediment to making and managing allocations, according to a whitepaper by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners.