The Spillover Benefits of Hedge Fund Activism
After one company is targeted by activist
investors, its industry peers tend to proactively make policy and governance
changes to ward off similar attacks, according to a study.
News
OCIO Business Expected To Increase by 54%
Investment consultants expect their outsourced CIO business will comprise 18.5% of their total assets by 2016, Cerulli Associates’ research has found.
A New Approach to TDFs (and Why the Old One Doesn’t Work)
Investment managers need to realise the old TDF theory is defective and needs replacing, a paper has claimed.
SEI: Fears Overblown about Mark-to-Market Accounting
A study
found the shift from GAAP to mark-to-market accounting practices has no significant
effect on corporate finances and stakeholders’ functions.
The Risk Whisperers
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: How leading-edge managers have cut across silos, making risk factors the lingua franca of liability management. Leanna Orr reports.
Coming To America
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Why Europe’s asset managers want America’s liabilities. Charlie Thomas reports.
Doug Brown Goes Nuclear
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Exelon's CIO Doug Brown on using LDI to take down nuclear plants in America.
How to Not Use Liability-Driven Investing: The UPS Way
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Sage Um reports on CIO Brian Pellegrino's choice not to implement an LDI program.
Challenging Liability-Matching (With New Approaches)
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Innovations in LDI tools, products, and ideology. Elizabeth Pfeuti reports.
Pension-Risk Transfers: Soaring or Grounded?
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Kip McDaniel on the illusion of the silent pension-risk transfer space.
Who Knows Best about Hedging?
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Elizabeth Pfeuti reports on why pension boards are leaning more and more on third parties when it comes to LDI.
Accountable Accounting
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Public pensions inch towards de-risking, with a nudge from Moody's. Sage Um reports.
The Liability-Driven Investing Issue… For Now
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Editor-in-Chief Kip McDaniel on aiCIO's "last LDI-labeled" issue.
When LDI Wins, Who Loses?
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Equities and corporate bonds are not the only asset classes to suffer. Charlie Thomas reports.
The Weird and Wonderful of LDI
From aiCIO magazine's November issue: Charlie Thomas reports on investors turning to ETFs within their LDI strategies.