Findings from Coller Capital's latest semi-annual Global Private Equity Barometer survey of 120 limited partners (LPs) show heightened confidence among institutional investors as their private equity programs develop.
In a significant milestone, the largest US public pension is worth as much as when Lehman Brothers Holdings went bankrupt in 2008, Bloomberg is reporting.
Since the financial crisis hit, the US regulator has been especially keen on hunting down public pensions for lack of transparency about their investments and about information regarding their financial impacts on the state.
Why it's important: Because nearly everywhere except America sees pension funds moving into environmental, social, and governance investing – and every year
this trend continues, America is left further behind.
In the latest update to the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index, which consists of 100 of the nation's largest defined benefit pensions, the global consulting and actuarial firm showed these plans experienced a $22 billion decrease in pension funded status for the month of November.
From aiCIO Magazine: Editor-at-Large Joe Flood executes the ultimate tie-in-reviewing a book on the roots of innovation (whose author shares an editor with Flood) two weeks after our Industry Innovation Awards. Kudos, Flood.
Mohamed El-Erian at Pacific Investment Management Co, which runs the world's biggest bond fund, has revised his outlook for US growth in 2011 following President Barack Obama's tax-cut compromise deal.
Investment managers are seeing an increase in the number of requests for proposals (RFPs) from insurance companies seeking third party services as the manager selection process evolves to meet increasingly complex investment needs.
Chief Executive Officer Johannes Teyssen revealed that E.ON wants to raise $20 billion through asset disposals by the end of 2013 to lure pensions looking for steady, inflation-protected returns electricity lines provide.
A report released this week shows the number and value of
acquisitions made by sovereign wealth funds followed by the Monitor
Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) doubled in the first half
of 2010, with SWFs spending the most money in Europe, which accounted
for 40% of the total expenditure, followed by North America, which
accounted for about a third of the total value of deals, or about $7.5
billion.
