PIMCO Chief: Low Interest Rates Present Little Economic Upside
The “great global interest rate convergence” is hurting institutional investors without lifting the global economy, PIMCO’s CEO has argued.
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PIMCO's El-Erian: America Is Healing, Slowly
Is the economy of the United States on the upswing?
aiCIO NYC Summit: Risk, Return, and Everything in-Between
It’s all about risk, and being rewarded for taking it, but how, where, when and with whom was up for debate at our CIO summit.
Consultants: Derivatives Emerge As 'Quick and Dirty' Solution to Bond Shortage
Derivatives and other hedging strategies are logical solutions for corporate pension funds in the United States as they face heightened volatility along with interest rate and market movements amid a constrained bond market, investment consultants say.
Survey: US-Managed Insurance Assets on the Upswing
Outsourced insurance assets managed by unaffiliated investment management firms in the United States rose to $1.78 trillion as of June 30, 2011, a survey conducted by Insurance Asset Manager LLC shows.
MFS Chief Chooses Credit and Tech for 2012
Quarter trillion dollar strategist makes calls on 2012 and ups frequency of portfolio turnover.
Year in Preview
From aiCIO Magazine's Winter 2011 Issue: A look ahead to 2012 on the topics of risk parity, real estate, low-volatility investing, LDI, and commodity investing.
Utter Confusion
From aiCIO Magazine's 2011 Liability-Driven Investing Issue: The first step is understanding the scope of the problem--and the potential solutions.
Increasing Complexity
From aiCIO Magazine's 2011 Liability-Driven Investing Issue: If the world ran out of long bonds, what would plan sponsors do?
Pension Risk Management in a Low Interest-Rate World
From aiCIO Magazine's 2011 Liability-Driven Investing Issue: Column by Ari Jacobs and Matthew Clink of Aon Hewitt.
Corzine's MF Global Files for Bankruptcy Following Bad Bets on European Debt
After leaving office as New Jersey's governor, Jon Corzine assumed the CEO position of MF Global, pledging to improve the firm's financials -- but ended up leaving it in a state of crisis.
PIMCO's Gross: Can You Solve a Debt Crisis With More Debt?
Bill Gross, who manages the world’s largest fixed-income fund -- the PIMCO Total Return Bond fund -- has asserted that you cannot solve a debt crisis by creating more debt.
While New Oversight Council Aims to Scrutinize Asset Managers, Consultants Worry About Overregulation
The top financial regulatory board in the United States has laid out standards by which insurance companies, hedge funds, and other non-bank financial firms could fall under stricter regulation, yet industry sources voice apprehension that firms may be overburdened by regulation and reporting.
Aon Hewitt Predicts 'Major Unintended Consequences' for Pensions Following UK's QE2
The Bank of England has unleashed £75 billion of emergency support in an effort to lessen tensions threatening the UK's recovery, yet Aon Hewitt predicts the move of QE2 will only exacerbate pension funding problems.
Reports Reveal Hard Times for Corporate Pensions
Amid an environment of falling equities values and low interest rates, Legal & General Investment Management America, BNY Mellon Asset Management, and UBS Global Asset Management have all separately released reports showing that corporate funding is on the decline.