Pensions
JPM: Reopen Corporate DB Plans or Stop Closing and Freezing Them
Sponsors no longer need to block new workers from defined benefit pensions, as the programs are an advantage, says a study.
Tag: Interest Rates
Research
How the Investing World Is Changing for Good, and for Bad, per JPM’s Savant
An end to artificially low rates and globalization will have mixed results, strategist Michael Cembalest finds.
Newsmakers
Agecroft Partners Predicts Top Hedge Fund Industry Trends for 2023
Don Steinbrugge released his top expected trends for the hedge fund industry in 2023.
Asset Allocation
Shiny Private Equity Loses Some of Its Luster
The go-to asset class has stumbled a bit lately, prompting second looks from allocators.
Research
Howard Marks: A ‘Sea Change’ Has Come to Investing
Risk aversion and higher rates are now embedded features, which has big implications, the celebrated investor says.
News
BCA: Why the Dollar’s Surge, Now Ebbing, Will Resume—After Some Tumult
Once economic and geopolitical turmoil subsides and rates tick down, the buck will be back, the research firm says.
Research
Survey: Allocators See 2023 Opportunity in Bonds
Fixed income should benefit from rate increases, Natixis poll finds.
Asset Allocation
BlackRock’s Suggested 2023 Buys: Investment Grade Corporates and Just 2 Other Bond Types
Still-high inflation and an expected recession call for slighting stocks and most other categories, the asset kingpin advises.
Research
Higher Interest Rates Are Living on Borrowed Time, Jeremy Siegel Says
The Federal Reserve won’t be able to ignore a slowing economy and will reverse course, the economist predicts.
Asset Allocation
T. Rowe: Conventional Wisdom on ’23 Market Is a Crock
Growth stocks rebound, banks are vulnerable, consumer staples rule—all those shibboleths are so last year, the firm’s CIO, John Linehan, says.
Research
When Will Beaten-Up Real Estate Turn Around?
The easy answer is a rebounding economy. But that’s not the sole factor, a Northern Trust Asset Management study finds.
Asset Allocation
Norway’s Pension Giant Lost $215 Billion in First Three Quarters
With more than two-thirds of its portfolio in equities, falling markets have pummeled the world’s second largest pension fund.
Asset Allocation
BofA’s Answer to a Bear Market: Outdex, Don’t Index
The shortcomings of the S&P 500 make this method preferable, says the bank.
Pensions
Funding Status of Pensions Increases Marginally Despite Equity Market Downturn
Concluding the September pension watch, two consultants monitored that funding ratios in U.S. plans had eclipsed over 100% funded.
Newsmakers
Dalio’s Magic Number for Tanking the Economy
At a 4.5% benchmark interest rate, economic growth will start to suffer, hedge fund guru says.