Manager Selection
July 29, 2015
Objectives are coming into the spotlight as investors demand deliverables from their managers, research has shown.
Risk
July 29, 2015
A paper co-penned by one of the fund's in-house managers assesses hedge funds
within individual institutional portfolios.
Newsmakers
July 28, 2015
The insurer has also agreed to acquire Dachille’s fixed-income firm, First Principles.
Manager Selection
July 28, 2015
Private equity firms will start shopping when an “inevitable” market correction arrives, the Carlyle co-founder predicts.
Newsmakers
July 28, 2015
The world’s second largest sovereign wealth fund has hired a noted Japan specialist.
Manager Selection
July 27, 2015
The consulting firm has placed a number of key players in its pension-risk transfer and annuity buyouts practice.
Newsmakers
July 27, 2015
A-List endowments go head-to-head in part three of CIO ’s Google Trends series.
Risk
July 27, 2015
As the popularity of factor investing grows, the risks of overcrowding in some areas are also increasing.
Asset Allocation
July 27, 2015
The French bank says it will pay to be prepared when Chair Yellen raises rates—and maybe even before that.
Risk
July 24, 2015
High conviction hedge funds could reduce drawdowns but implementation is not easy, according to Cambridge Associates.
Risk
July 24, 2015
A two-fold glide path—targeting both funded status and funding volatility—can improve outcomes over classic LDI, UBS argues.
Newsmakers
July 24, 2015
Raising more than $1 billion in an investment product may well have been more luck than skill, according to a new report.
Asset Allocation
July 24, 2015
Structured loan products are proving popular with pension funds, especially in Europe.
Asset Allocation
July 23, 2015
Soon after declaring there are “no safe places to invest” in China to clients, Bridgewater Associates stressed that “too much has been made of the shift in their thinking.”
Risk
July 23, 2015
An academic study has found a correlation between competitive political campaigns and poorly funded defined benefit pensions.