With the New Zealand Superannuation fund’s purchase of farmland, expected to top US$380 million in value in the coming years, further proof is seen of a growing trend among institutional investors.
Are Canadian endowments outperforming their American counterparts? Possibly – but all is not what it seems at first glance with the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) average.
A group of 10 organizations representing state and local governments and public pension plans have released a fact sheet to get the facts out on public pension plans.
According to research prepared by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the financial crisis has driven the world's leading sovereign wealth funds to reexamine their investment strategies and make a number of significant changes.
According to two separate surveys of pensions, schemes both domestically and globally are intending to reduce their exposure to equities as well as fixed-income, planning greater allocations to alternatives.
A report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has argued that sovereign wealth funds should engage in regular macro-risk assessments, stressing the continued importance of these large pools of capital as stabilizers in international markets and major players in global regulatory reform.
The money manager's index, which uses 100 as a neutral reading, has found that investor confidence dropped 3.3 points to 100.9 in January from 104.2 in December.
A survey by the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) has shown a shift in approach by investors in terms of preferred location.
With a low interest rate environment expected to continue, a survey by Towers Watson expects there will be further delay before many Canadian defined benefit (DB) pension plans become fully funded.
