Words From the Wise
From aiCIO's November Issue: Paula Vasan, aiCIO managing editor, spoke with NISA’s Jess Yawitz about his favorite subject (besides poker): LDI.
News Archive: Nov - 2012
How LDI Saved Brown Shoe
From aiCIO's November Issue: Here’s how one St. Louis-based corporate pension embraced liability-driven investing to survive, and how specialist-firm NISA achieved LDI star-status as a result. Paula Vasan reports.
Strategic Partnership Guru Departs NJ Pension
An architect of New Jersey’s ‘strategic relationships’ with Blackstone and Och-Ziff, among others, has left the public pension system for a family office.
Meanwhile, In America…
From aiCIO's November Issue: A sidebar to "Up, Up and Away," a feature story on Rolls-Royce and LDI.
Up, Up and Away
From aiCIO's November Issue: How Rolls-Royce shed the constraints of its various pension funds—and saw its stock, among other things, take flight. Elizabeth Pfeuti reports.
I Don’t Always Invest Pension Assets, But When I Do, I Prefer Duration Matching
Sidebar from aiCIO's November Issue: A look at the most interesting ex-pension manager in the world.
Is LDI Dead?
From aiCIO's November Issue: Delving into a question that tantalizes both supporters and opponents of liability-driven investing (LDI).
Behind the Scenes: The Creation of MAP-21
From aiCIO's November Issue: The Consultant Corner.
LDI? No, Let’s Talk Risk Transfer.
From aiCIO's November Issue: At an annual conference for aiCIO's sister publication, PLANSPONSOR Europe, LDI was on no one's lips.
Public Pensions and LDI: Holy Grail or Pandora’s Box?
From aiCIO's November Issue: When will public pension plans be required to value liabilities on a mark-to-market basis?
Same Head, Different Hat
From aiCIO's November Issue: We're not the only organization polling LDI (although do look at our survey)—NEPC did one too.
Managing Editor's Letter: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
From aiCIO's November Issue: Managing Editor Paula Vasan analyzes liability-driven investing (LDI) through the perspectives of aiCIO's columnists.
Editor-in-Chief's Letter: The Journalist and the Murderer
From aiCIO's November Issue: Liability-driven investing, provocative cover stories, and journalistic ethics.
Pensions Allege JPMorgan Transformed CIO Unit Into Risky Prop-Trading Desk
A group of pension funds have filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co--the biggest bank by assets in the United States--noting that it has turned its risk-management unit into a "secret hedge fund" resulting in monumental losses.
CIOs Turn to Home Improvements for 2013
There are lots of things for CIOs to do next year, but the priority is to get their houses in order, a survey has shown.