Manager Selection
It didn’t pay to be skillful if you were a hedge fund manager in 2014.
Asset Allocation
Established managers are increasing their dominance in real estate and infrastructure as demand remains high.
Newsmakers
A banker-turned-investment consultant has joined the UK’s leading de-risker.
Newsmakers
Sumit Handa is set to depart the $4.7 billion fund after three-and-a-half years as CIO.
Newsmakers
PIMCO's former CIO says that the time to take risk has passed.
Asset Allocation
Risk on or risk off? Which asset classes received the most new money last year?
Risk
The first major de-risking deal of the year is a longevity swap backed by Pacific Life Re.
Tudor Investment Corporation has pulled the plug on its $300 million futures fund due to high costs.
Asset Allocation
Where was the money made in the hedge fund sector last year?
Manager Selection
Preqin’s data reveals evidence of a supply/demand imbalance in the unlisted sector.
Asset Allocation
The aggregate funding levels fell to just 80% at the end of last year, nine percentage points behind 2013’s peak.
Asset Allocation
The $53 billion public fund is dialing back private equity exposure with one of the largest secondary transactions of 2014.
Asset Allocation
Deutsche Bank has ranked the best and worst investments of 2014—and has a warning for the first hurdle of 2015.
Regulation
The UK’s Coal Pension fund is taking legal action to recover millions it claims to have lost through a currency hedge.
Asset Allocation
Declining equity markets hurt the US’ biggest pensions, but assets still rose in the first nine months of 2014.