From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Pierce, CIO of the US$23 billion UniSuper superannuation fund, spoke with our Woman in Australia about a rising Australian dollar environment, the restructuring of the fund’s illiquid asset allocation—and why government-made incentives in the infrastructure market will have a negligible impact on institutional investor decisionmaking.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Tai, who together with her investment team oversees upward of $35 billion in defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) assets scattered around the globe, spoke with aiCIO on Hewlett-Packard's well-timed liability-driven investing (LDi) move, as well as the rigors of managing DB alongside DC.
From
aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Jepsen, CIO of the US$137 billion
Danish pension AtP, spoke with aiCIO on the merits of safe sovereign
bonds, the benefits of a small central investment office, and his fund's
overarching focus on risk.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: In the early-August week that saw markets swing wildly, Baumgartner— Director of Asset Allocation and risk at the $11 billion Ford Foundation—sat with aiCIO to discuss the market environment, “true” diversification, and the end-goal of Foundation investing.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Should asset owners be investing with managers that place so much weight on a single individual’s shoulders? Benjamin Ruffel reports.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: If the
financial crisis exposed the Chicago School’s central economic theory -- the primacy of free markets unfettered by government intervention -- to be a False God, what will take its place? Joe Flood reports.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: An exclusive interview with two of the most influential chief investment officers in America - Chris Ailman of CalSTRS and Joe Dear of CalPERS.
In a recent Canadian academic paper, researchers assert that larger pension plans outperform their smaller peers due to asset allocation, internal management, and governance.
GovernanceMetrics International has introduced an online research platform that allows institutional investors and corporations to identify a company’s environmental, social, and governance risks.
In a complaint filed in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan, ABP -- Europe's second-biggest pension fund -- has claimed Deutsche Bank made false and misleading statements about underwriting standards and practices, loan-to-value ratios, appraisals and owner-occupancy statistics.
