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A CBI/Watson Wyatt study also shows that corporate profits are more often than not hurt by the pension costs associated with defined benefit systems.

Having taken a deal hiatus, the British pension buyout firm looks to reenter a market apparently on the mend following near-silence in the first half of the year.

Despite recent controversy over e-mails and a conference that is likely to lead to little in hard results, there is growing evidence that institutional investors increasingly are investing with global warming in mind.

Following similar suits by Mississippi and California, the Ohio Attorney General files suit against rating agencies.

A new Pyramis Pulse survey shows that endowments and foundations, often lumped together for the sake of simplicity, increasingly are turning to different asset allocations and risk management procedures to protect themselves from the dreaded fat tail.

A new poll shows that, while Canadian pension plan sponsors are worried about meeting their liabilities, they still are confident that the national retirement system is better equipped to handle future challenges than the rest of the world.

A group of investors that includes CalPERS, CalSTRS, bcIMC, and others has petitioned the SEC in hopes of requiring companies to disclose balance-sheet risk relating to climate change.

The California pension behemoth is giving less cash to private equity funds, and is demanding that current general partners reduce management fees.

The study also shows that European institutions have not altered their  overall equity allocation drastically, although they remain significantly more conservative then their British counterparts.

Led by three state pension funds, the class action suit accused the insurer of misrepresenting revenues from contingent commissions.

Following a national trend and hoping to align itself with new state laws, pension giant CalPERS has increased disclosure requirements for investment managers that utilize placement agents.

After a disastrous 2008, the fund—which has replaced both its CEO and CIO since April—will issue up to $8 billion in bonds.

Funds from across the globe gathered in Singapore alongside world leaders to express their concerns over protectionism—and to promote the idea of sovereign wealth funds as long-term, stable investors.

Despite few actual deals being completed, U.K. pension schemes are increasingly interested in insuring against retirees outliving actuarial predictions, a new study shows.

A recent survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows that 30% of large pension plans, endowments, and foundations are reducing their exposure to much-maligned U.S. equities, choosing instead to enter corporate bonds and emerging markets.