Asset Allocation
Insurance companies in Europe are outsourcing more assets as they seek to expand their investments outside core fixed income.
Risk
The Netherlands’ second largest pension fund has entered into an agreement which will provide access to €3.2 billion of corporate loans.
Newsmakers
The pension giant’s leadership carried out Joe Dear’s legacy in the initial investment decisions made since his death.
Newsmakers
James Grossman, current acting CIO, has been promoted to lead the state's public educators' fund.
Risk
Denmark’s largest commercial pension fund has decided to become a more active investor with its equity holdings.
Newsmakers
New York and London are still on top, but the economic crisis has launched many more financial hubs.
Newsmakers
Thomas Judge, one of the first to invest pension assets in venture capital, has died at 83.
Asset Allocation
Asset
pricing models based on liabilities and funded status could be the answer to
the CAPM problem.
Newsmakers
Target-date funds fall behind in returns but continue to pull in the lion’s share of assets.
Asset Allocation
The world’s largest oil fund is to push into more environmentally friendly ways of producing power.
Newsmakers
Banks made it rain on New York City’s securities staffers in 2013, distributing $26.7 billion in cash bonuses.
Risk
A study found heavily-hedged currency
portfolios allocated to alpha-generating managers saw improved returns within
the mandated risk bucket.
Regulation
Politicians have decided to update how more than €100 billion in domestic pension assets are run.
Manager Selection
The American Federation of Teachers is urging defined benefit plans to avoid investing with managers it says are linked to anti-pension groups.
Risk
The asset management industry is largely unruffled by the geopolitical conflict between Ukraine and Russia.