The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has announced a bond swap, with plans to purchase $400 billion in longer-term securities while selling an equal amount of short-term ones by June 2012.
As Japanese institutional investors -- generally bearish on hedge funds -- increasingly aim to up their hedge fund allocations in the near term, a former prime brokerage executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co has set up a hedge fund advisory firm in Japan.
Following broad government reforms, Australian pension schemes will encounter heightened scrutiny of their corporate governance and risk management policies that will affect investment decisions.
In a rare show of expression for the usually intensely private sovereign wealth fund, Singapore's Government Investment Corporation has voiced concern with UBS's trading loss.
An investor survey by Carne Group has found that hedge fund governance is an issue that has increased in importance since 2008, with allocators now actively pressing for changes in the way that hedge fund boards are managed.
A coalition of institutions led by Aviva Investors has called on United Nations’ member states to develop a global policy framework that requires listed and large private companies to integrate sustainability information throughout their Annual Report and Accounts.
As the Federal Reserve moves toward new steps to purchase long-dated Treasury bonds and decrease interest rates on long-term loans, investors question the impact on liability-driven investment.
US regulators have filed a lawsuit alleging insider trading related to the recent purchase of US underwater oil services company Global Industries Ltd by France's Technip SA.
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania municipal pension plan had been threatened with a state takeover; by achieving a funding status over 50%, they have avoided it – for now.
As part a response to requests from the public, including members of Congress, that the agency allow an opportunity for more input on the rule, the US Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration will re-propose its rule on the definition of a fiduciary.
The combined employee benefit deficits of the Netherlands' 50 largest companies grew by €1 billion in the past year, according to the first "Pensions Accounting Briefing" report by LCP Netherlands.