Paper: Norway Sovereign Fund Offers Best Insights to Investors on SRI
Institutional investors should look toward the sovereign wealth funds of Norway and New Zealand in their quest for sustainable investing, according to a recent paper.
News Archive: Feb - 2012
European Funds Lose Assets Twice in Three Years
Investors pulled more money than they allocated to Europe-based funds in 2011 for only the second time since the start of the decade.
CIO Survey: While Alts Gain Traction, Have Flows to Passive Run Its Course?
While many respondents continue to expect their allocations to long-only equities to moderate, a large proportion of respondents suggest active domestic equity strategies will continue to find it difficult to pick up market share, a newly released survey by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) shows.
Dallas’ Public Pension: The Mutant Offspring of a Well-Funded Corporate Plan and an Aggressive Endowment
The Profile: How Dallas’ city pension is nearly 100% funded in the age of public plan debacles.
Yale Prof: How to Tap Emerging Markets
Emerging markets are best tapped through affiliates of developed market multinationals, research has shown.
Letter From the Editor-in-Chief: Defined Benefit/Magazines Are Not Dead Yet
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Like printed magazines, the demise of defined benefit has long been predicted. We're still waiting for those prognosticators to be right.
Letter From the Managing Editor: Deepening Our Global Footprint
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Letter from the managing editor on aiCIO's new London-based hire, Elizabeth Pfeuti.
Column: Here Comes Customization…
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: The old world—where portfolio managers could scale, where client service was somehow less about intellect and more about bonhomie, where alpha was always just within reach—was a vastly preferable one for asset managers.
Pension Funds v. Private Equity?
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Pension funds are riding their private equity partners hard. Should they be? John Keefe reports.
Ewart Williams Believes in Sovereign Fund Efficiencies
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Ewart Williams, Director of Investments at the Heritage and Stabilization Fund, Trinidad and Tobago, runs the Caribbean nation’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) in addition to being governor of its central bank.
Cees Dert Asks “Where Do You Want to Be?”
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Cees Dert and his team ask the trustees of the Dutch ABN Amro pension scheme where they want to be, and only after they have answered does he reveal how he plans to get them there.
Consultant Corner: Are Investment Consultants Ready for Dodd-Frank?
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Investment consultants on their level preparedness amid a changing regulatory environment.
Rates Rise; Then What?
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: What happens to the assets and liabilities of various capital pools when--not if--rates eventually rise?
Embracing Hype?
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: Is the Facebook IPO evidence of a technology bubble?
Mining Manager Bulls&!t
From aiCIO Magazine's February Issue: A public pension trustee uses his past interrogation experience to weed out potentially suspect asset managers.