Risk Monitoring Lag Hitting Pension Portfolios
If you don’t know what risk you are holding, how can you manage it?
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Cross-Sector Signals Can Boost Alpha
Considering a range of signals could boost your equity returns, research has found.
Is Medical Underwriting the Future for Pension Derisking?
Impaired annuity deals help smaller schemes to take advantage of buy-ins.
Hedge Fund Leverage Approaches All-Time High
Remember when “leverage” was a dirty word? It isn’t any more.
Tilting Portfolios to Take Advantage of Inflation Cycles
Which assets perform best throughout the inflation/deflation cycle – and how to make sure you access them.
De-Risking Amid Low Rates? Ditch Your Glide Path, Says Cambridge Associates.
CIOs can do better than the traditional strategy of replacing stocks with long-duration bonds, according to the consultancy.
Asset Allocation For a QE World
We now know that the impact of quantitative easing (QE) on the UK's pension fund liabilities may not have been as disastrous as we first thought -- so how should schemes position themselves for what comes next? Charlie Thomas investigates.
Popular De-Risking Deals Rise In the US and UK
A report from Greenwich Associates shows large payouts are gaining traction among US pension plans.
Can you Brie-Lieve it? UK Pension Offers Cheese as a Contingent Asset
Dairy Crest offers its DB scheme cheese inventories to shore up its funding.
IMF: Pension & Insurance Funds Are “Gambling for Resurrection”
Quantitative easing has led these institutional investors to risk up for survival—and the IMF is alarmed about how they’d weather a sharp correction in rates.
UK Schemes Target Self-Sufficiency Over Buyout
Appetite for buyout wanes as DB schemes seek to play out their flightplans.
aiCIO Summit: Good Governance Crucial For Successful In-House Investment
In-house investing requires clear divisions of decision making, conference hears.
aiCIO Summit: Custom Portfolio Tracking Systems
External tech providers have improved their investment dashboards, but do-it-yourself models remain popular.
PIMCO Taps Inflation Worries
Investment giant Pimco has plans to ease investors’ inflation fears and chase returns.
Infrastructure Returns: What Factors Matter?
A long-term study evaluates the factors that infrastructure investment returns are—and are not—sensitive to. The results might surprise you.