Asset Allocation
July 16, 2013
Institutional CIOs should recognise the benefits of infrastructure debt, and embrace construction risk as a welcome diversifier for their portfolios, finds EDHEC’s white paper.
Newsmakers
July 15, 2013
David Villa, CIO of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, joins other global investors in the incipient group.
Manager Selection
July 15, 2013
The era of Excel and the Brinson-Fachler formula is over, the heads of Alberta’s sovereign wealth fund stressed in a white paper.
Asset Allocation
July 15, 2013
UK contract-based DC funds’ focus on keeping things cheap is doing a disservice to members, the industry has claimed.
Asset Allocation
July 15, 2013
Northern Trust's investment management report finds investor sentiment has calmed in the second quarter of 2013, and volatility is expected to rise.
Asset Allocation
July 11, 2013
Alternative assets and investment outsourcing are on most insurers’ minds, according to a State Street survey of industry executives.
Risk
July 11, 2013
Faulty study design accounts for much of the evidence that risk-factor investing is superior to asset class models, according to two prominent managers.
Asset Allocation
July 11, 2013
A global snapshot of asset management has shown vast majority of inflows have gone to top 10 managers.
Risk
July 11, 2013
A bill tabled by a Republican Senator, asking for insurers to be able to take on public sector pension plans, has received a muted response.
Regulation
July 10, 2013
Or no lies, according to two judges who have thrown out pension-led cases against custodians JP Morgan and BNY Mellon over foreign exchange trades.
Risk
July 10, 2013
Consultants and insurers tell aiCIO there is scope for further pension buyout headlines.
Newsmakers
July 10, 2013
Swiss pension funds enjoy another discount rate rise, boosting funding for a second quarter, according to Towers Watson.
Newsmakers
July 9, 2013
Daniel Enskat talks about the shift from using alternatives as satellite investments to including them in a core asset allocation strategy.
Newsmakers
July 9, 2013
Friends Life's CIO talks Solvency II, increasing alternative allocations, and what his most rewarding investment decision has been since 2008.
Manager Selection
July 9, 2013
It is not just a few outliers among major asset owners who outperform specialists in the hedge fund space, a new study found. It’s the majority of them.