The consultancy group Mercer has revealed that accounting measures of the liabilities of defined benefit (DB) schemes in most developed economies have seen marked increases in liabilities due to declining corporate bond yields.
China's $300 billion sovereign wealth fund has stated it "has doubts" in investing in old line automakers and must instead invest in relatively conservative and stable industries "that will survive 50 years from now."
Consultants told the State Investment Council that New Jersey’s pension fund should direct as much as 43% of its assets into alternatives, compared with the 19.3% allowed now.
A significant decrease in corporate bond interest rates has driven a $108 billion decrease in the funded status of the 100 large defined benefit plans tracked by Milliman.
In
the first six months of this year, the number of mergers and
acquisitions worldwide has jumped 22% from the same period in 2009,
spurred by major regulatory initiatives, a recent study by Freeman &
Co. reveals.
New research from Goldman Sachs shows pension funds and other institutional investors based in developed markets could raise their emerging markets equity weighting in the next two decades.
Japan's private pensions, which
oversee more than JPY60 trillion, are in search of a reliable stream of
returns to meet the retirement needs of the world’s fastest-aging
population.
Despite the financial crisis, the global
retirement market is expected to grow over the next decade, with total
pension assets increasing from €22 trillion to €36 trillion.
Amid concern about slowing economic growth, a new survey shows more than a third of managers are increasingly bearish about the US stock market and upbeat on 10-year Treasuries.
Activists are organizing a campaign to urge the $33 billion Gates Foundation to sever ties with agribusiness giant Monsanto and other firms involved in developing bio-engineered crops, encouraging the foundation to shift its funding priorities from industrial agriculture to socially and ecologically appropriate practices.
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