U.S. State, Local Public Pensions Saw Funding Statuses Fall in 2022
The Equable Institute recently released its year-end update to State of Pensions 2022, covering the funding status of public pensions across the country.
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Diversity Improves for Foundation Asset Managers
Some 18% of assets were managed by women- and minority-owned firms in 2022, a Knight Foundation survey finds.
Poor December Equity Performance Reduces Pension Funding Status
Corporate pension funding statuses marginally retreat from record funding levels to end 2022.
Earnings Will Stink, but Not All of Them
Despite a punk Q4 profit picture, some companies should do fine, says Bank of America.
How the Investing World Is Changing for Good, and for Bad, per JPM’s Savant
An end to artificially low rates and globalization will have mixed results, strategist Michael Cembalest finds.
Agecroft Partners Predicts Top Hedge Fund Industry Trends for 2023
Don Steinbrugge released his top expected trends for the hedge fund industry in 2023.
Black-Scholes 2.0: Classic Valuation Method Expanded to Risks and Returns
The earthshaking 1973 stock options formula gets an update from two finance professors.
Pension Spending Supported $1.3 Trillion in Economic Output During Pandemic
Report finds strong economic gains attributable to DB pension expenditures in 2020 despite COVID-19 outbreak.
Corporate Pension Sponsors’ Use of OCIO Services Is Growing, While Interest in Risk Assets Wanes, Research Finds
Vanguard’s 2022 pension sponsor survey explores how the global pandemic, market volatility and rising inflation influenced pension decisionmaking.
How Bob Doll Makes His Rather Prescient 10 Annual Predictions
The Wall Street heavyweight’s forecasts for each coming year have done well over three decades, coupling conventional wisdom with unorthodox guesses.
Shiny Private Equity Loses Some of Its Luster
The go-to asset class has stumbled a bit lately, prompting second looks from allocators.
Stocks and Bonds Should Come Back in 2023, Says Cambridge Associates
The consulting firm explains why, even with a recession, it will pay to overweight equities.
Equity Gains Boost U.S. Public Pension Funding Status, Says Milliman
The 100 largest public pensions’ aggregate funded level now totals 74.7%, as of the end of November, advancing from 71.6% the prior month.
NBER Study Reviews Corporate Governance Implications of Indexing
As passive fund assets totaled $5.743 trillion in the U.S. in 2021, academic research explores how passive funds employ investment stewardship.
Remember When We Thought it was Transitory?
Principal’s Jablonski sketches out why rising interest rates are investors’ friends in 2023.