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Consultant Corner: In Asset Management, Does Size Matter?

From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Is the focus—and sometimes obsession—on assets under management when judging and predicting performance often erroneous thinking, reflective of a lack of logic? Many consultants think so. 

Is Transparency Killing San Diego?

From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Is it the San Diego Country Employees Retirement Association's attempts at good governance, and not poor investment decisions, that are causing its problems?

Not Livingston's Africa

From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: When foreign investors are looking to a new asset class, they do like to see that local investors are already there. However, for African private equity, this is not necessarily the case.

Infrastructure—or Imprudent?

From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: Are governments coercing funds to invest, or are such funds investing on their own volition—and with their own profit in mind?

Lessons for Defined…Bentribution

From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: With volatile markets and interest rate lows, older workers who participate in 401(k) or other defined contribution plans have watched their portfolios stagnate and gyrate.

Survey: LDI Reaches Five-Year Peak

As a new poll by SEI shows that nearly two-thirds of poll respondents are currently utilizing a Liability-Driven Investing (LDI) strategy, the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has recruited four LDI managers.