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.
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.
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.
Pacific Investment Management Co. founder Bill Gross says he has "lost sleep" over a wrong call on US Treasury bond interest rates, which cost him in his Total Return bond fund.
According to JP Morgan, institutional investors are increasingly rebalancing their portfolios following recent market volatility, targeting investments in high-dividend equities, active emerging markets and selective commodities.
Among institutional master trusts in the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service, corporate funds earned the spot as top performer for the second quarter, while public funds ranked No. 1 for the year.
