From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: CEOs are demanding that their pension funds be de-risked to avoid large contribution surprises, yet de-risking means lowering equity exposure when underfunded pensions need equity-like returns.
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: While some say China's economy may be robust enough for the country to become its own asset class, many consultants and other asset managers disagree.
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: The problem with currency exposure and its potentially disastrous effect on portfolio valuations lies as much with the way chief investment officers and their Boards think about the problem—the “grammar used to define currency risk.
Norway’s $570 billion sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management is “very positive” about the long-term outlook for Europe despite fear over the growing debt crisis.
The $40 billion Alaska Permanent Fund CIO Jeffrey Scott announced June 13 that he will leave the sovereign wealth fund and re-enter the private sector.
On the day that CIO Jeff Scott has announced his resignation from the Alaska Permanent Fund, aiCIO magazine offers a sneak peak at how the oil-rich state is leading the way toward a new method of asset allocation – and how it has brought in some of the world’s most powerful money managers to do its bidding. Joe Flood reports.
Mexico's pension regulator is allowing Afores to employ external managers to oversee a portion of their assets in order to gain added value in the international market, the Financial Times reports.
According to the Federal Reserve's latest Flow of Funds report corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans enjoyed an increase in assets amid strong equity returns as of March 31.
Asset owners managing $1 trillion—among them some of the most prominent US pension funds—have called on Russell 1000 companies to recognize the “new reality” of ESG risks.
US university endowments and other institutional investors are investing heavily in African land as they foresee high returns on deals that have encountered scrutiny and opposition, a new report states.
As institutional investors pursue the European property market, there should be a degree of caution as there is a danger of history repeating itself, says a new study by London-based Hatfield Philips International.
