From aiCIO Magazine's 2011 Liability-Driven Investing Issue: Hit by the unanticipated volatility of plans’ funded status and a swath of regulatory and accounting rule changes, plan sponsors, investment managers, and consultants have been forced to pay greater attention to plan assets in terms of liabilities.
A new report by Preqin has found that 38% of institutional investors surveyed in the firm's most recent analysis aim to increase their exposure to hedge fund investments in 2012.
From aiCIO Magazine's 2011 Liability-Driven Investing Issue: Wall Street is under fire for bad risk management. So why is Morgan Stanley’s defined benefit pension, of all things, so good at it?
After investments beat benchmarks for three straight years, Texas’s public university endowment has shelled out $7.2 million in bonuses to 29 managers.
A new survey by JP Morgan Asset Management shows that despite concerns of low interest rates, political risk, and portfolio risk among European institutional investors, fixed-income allocations will not be reduced.
Federal Judge Jed Rakoff is in the midst of questioning the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup over a proposed $285 million settlement with the bank over the sale of toxic mortgage debt.
Despite market volatility, BlackRock's Kevin Feldman notes that exchange-traded fund continue to gain momentum as a go-to place for gaining global access to the market.
The design and governance of investment management institutions is actually more important than honoring the principle of fiduciary duty which, claims Gordon Clark, a professor at Oxford University and author of a new academic paper.
The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System, which invests in JP Morgan, has sued the bank claiming breach of fiduciary duty by its directors.
In the latest example of institutional investors turning to large private equity firms for their expertise in more complex investments, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Apollo Global Management are set to manage $6 billion for the Teacher Retirement System of Texas' (TRS).
