Year in Preview
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: A look ahead to 2012 on the topics of risk parity, real estate, low-volatility investing, LDI, and commodity investing.
News
Kim Walker Thinks It's Time to Get Real
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Washington University’s $5 billion endowment chief investment officer Walker spoke with aiCIO about 2008, investment risk, and real assets.
Sam Kunz Thinks Overconfidence Plagues the Industry
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Kunz, head of the Chicago Policeman's Annuity and Benefit Plan, spoke with aiCIO about international pension differences, mushroom hunting, and overconfidence.
Decoding the Maze of Transition Management Due Diligence
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Rick Di Mascio on the future of transparency in transition management.
Consultant Corner: In Asset Management, Does Size Matter?
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Is the focus—and sometimes obsession—on assets under management when judging and predicting performance often erroneous thinking, reflective of a lack of logic? Many consultants think so.
Is Transparency Killing San Diego?
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Is it the San Diego Country Employees Retirement Association's attempts at good governance, and not poor investment decisions, that are causing its problems?
Not Livingston's Africa
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: When foreign investors are looking to a new asset class, they do like to see that local investors are already there. However, for African private equity, this is not necessarily the case.
Infrastructure—or Imprudent?
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Are governments coercing funds to invest, or are such funds investing on their own volition—and with their own profit in mind?
Lessons for Defined…Bentribution
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: With volatile markets and interest rate lows, older workers who participate in 401(k) or other defined contribution plans have watched their portfolios stagnate and gyrate.
Poll: Amid Challenges, Private Equity Investors Are Cautious
Private equity investors foresee major challenges for the industry over the next few years and are cautious about investing too heavily in the asset class, according to Coller Capital's latest Global Private Equity Barometer.
Academic Paper: US Sovereign Wealth Funds Fearful of Political Baggage
A new academic paper explores domestic sovereign wealth funds, with a focus on their origins, purpose, and governance, noting that such funds are wary of political maneuvering.
Towers Watson/CBI Study: EU Pension Costs Harming Business Growth
As pension deficits are holding back company performance, a new poll reveals that proposed pension regulations in the European Union would significantly add to business costs.
State’s Switch From Traditional Pension to 401(k)? Not So Fast.
New Hampshire is looking at switching from a defined benefit retirement system to a defined contribution one, but a new study shows it might be a costly move.
After Passing on Texas Teachers, Blackstone Finalizes Deal With NJ Pension
The world's largest private-equity firm has won as much as $1.8 billion in pension-fund commitments from the New Jersey Division of Investment.
JPMorgan Faces Lawsuit by Dutch Scheme Over Mortgage-Backed Securities
JPMorgan Chase & Co has been sued by a Netherlands-based pension fund over residential mortgage-backed securities it purchased.