Regulation
October 27, 2015
The budget bill's new round of premium increases could mean
PRT, freezing plans, or the end of DB as we know it, according to experts.
Risk
October 27, 2015
Investors shouldn’t try to pick stocks based on what they think might happen elsewhere, argues AQR founder Cliff Asness.
Newsmakers
October 27, 2015
Virginie Maisonneuve and four former PIMCO equity managers have joined together to launch Maisonneuve Global Advisors.
Asset Allocation
October 27, 2015
Competition, falling yields, and a demand-supply mismatch are halting the sector’s surge in popularity.
Manager Selection
October 27, 2015
A performance study by Cambridge Associates suggests diversified growth fund manager selection is “critical” as few products do what they say they will.
Asset Allocation
October 26, 2015
Auto-enroll? Nope. Custom TDFs? Wrong again. To build one of the best defined contribution plans in America, Microsoft tossed conventional wisdom in favor of hard data.
Risk
October 26, 2015
Increasing longevity risk will lead to further adoption of de-risking in North America, according to Prudential.
Newsmakers
October 26, 2015
Insurance investment chief Jayne Styles has added another string to her bow in the form of a non-executive position.
Asset Allocation
October 26, 2015
Investing via indexes pushes shareholders and companies further apart, according to a report by
Hermes Investment Management.
Risk
October 26, 2015
A legacy pension plan has plenty to offer its DC replacement, according to Acatel-Lucent’s CIO.
Asset Allocation
October 23, 2015
Research into 11,000 institutional portfolios found that specialists outperformed the well-diversified.
Risk
October 23, 2015
Better-than-even chances of underperformance prove more costly than manager fees, a study finds.
Regulation
October 23, 2015
Proposed changes to Sweden’s public pension system are “ill-defined and bureaucratic”, fund leaders say.
Asset Allocation
October 22, 2015
With more invested assets than hedge funds, the ETF industry is seemingly thriving—but not everyone’s buying in.
Manager Selection
October 22, 2015
New research from Novus examines how three of the biggest activist hedge fund managers create value.