Survey Finds Climate Change a Growing Concern for Investors
A survey found that the vast majority of pension funds, foundations, and asset managers view climate change as both a risk and an opportunity.
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Interrogation: Roger Gray Thinks Governance Equals Performance
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Gray—via Oxford, Harvard, Rothschild, UBS, and Hermès—arrived at the United Kingdom's US$52 billion Universities Superannuation System in 2009, intent on furthering internal management and governance strength.
Book Review: Money and Power and Indiscreet Emails
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: William Cohan's Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World is the latest addition to a renaissance in financial writing.
Column: Achieving Solvency Nirvana
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Static approaches in dynamic markets are likely to fail.
Column: Pension Quandary in Valuing Liabilities
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Legislation has been proposed in Congress that would force states to publish their liabilities using corporate rates. This all leads to the question: What really is the right rate?
Oasis—Or Mirage?
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Securities lending is blooming once again -- but which model of lending will see fortune shine upon it more?
The Wild West v. The Wild Wild West
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Industry observers note that smart investors would position themselves well by achieving further emerging diversification through a frontier market allocation.
The UTIMCO Bullion Buy: Prescient, or Political?
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Was the gold purchase by the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) a prescient investment, or a political statement?
ETFs: Institutional in Origin, Institutional in Outlook
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Institutions' deployment of ETFs fall into four categories -- portfolio tactics, liquidity management, equitization, and transition management.
The Benchmark
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Benchmarks are now etched in the stone pillars of performance.
American Frontier
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: From a foreign perspective, is America the next great investment opportunity? David Pawsey reports.
The End of the 3 and 30
From aiCIO Magazine's Summer Issue: Hedge funds of funds have been called a “cancer on the institutional investor world.” For the large asset owner, is it time for this cancer to perish? Kip McDaniel reports.
Nominations Open for aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards 2011
Nominations are now open for aiCIO's annual Industry Innovation Awards for asset owner and asset management/servicing categories.
BlackRock Names Terrence Keeley Head of Official Institutions Group
BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, has hired Terrence Keeley to lead a unit overseeing relations with sovereign funds and central banks.
BNY Mellon Allegedly Cheated MassPRIM Out of $20 Million in Foreign Exchange Trading
Massachusetts State Treasurer Steven Grossman and MassPRIM Executive Director Michael Trotsky in a June 13 press conference announced that the state’s $50 billion pension fund had been overcharged $20 million on foreign exchange trading by BNY Mellon.