A study by the EDHEC-Risk Institute questions whether investing in commodities for financial gain has caused heightened volatility and a decade-long rise in commodity prices over recent years.
A new study by Bluefin Corporate Consulting of defined benefit scheme clients in the UK has found that the main threats to pension scheme funding are widely perceived as being long term interest rates, inflation, and equity performance.
Companies worldwide are continuing to shift their investor relations strategies to expand outreach to sovereign wealth funds and emerging markets, according to an annual survey conducted by BNY Mellon.
In his inaugural speech, Mark Hyde Harrison, the new Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), noted that defined contribution (DC) pensions in the UK are inefficient and wasteful.
Highland Capital Management, a Dallas-based investment adviser with approximately $24 billion in assets under management, has announced that a lawsuit from the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System has been dismissed.
Institutional investment managers have an increasingly negative outlook on US economic growth, yet many still see opportunities in the US equity markets, according to a quarterly survey by Northern Trust.
Prudential Financial has announced that it will sell its stake in Afore XXI S.A. de C.V., a private pension fund manager in Mexico, to Mexican bank Banorte.
Jane Ambachtsheer, Partner and Global Head of Responsible Investment at Mercer and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto (Canada), notes that while growing global influence of corporations has led to the development of a range of norms, codes, and conventions that seek to govern their behavior, pension funds may be missing in action.
A new report issued by New York City Comptroller John Liu and compiled by the National Institute on Retirement Security, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit, asserts that built-in economic efficiencies enable New York City pensions to do more with less.
Reclaiming fiduciary-duty balance between prudence, loyalty, and impartiality is critical to sustaining pension promises, a new academic paper asserts.
CEO and co-CIO of Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) Mohamed El-Erian, asserts in a recent article that the state of the US economy reflects financial re-alignments, insufficient policy responses, and rigidities that frustrate structural change.
A new guide published by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) is aimed at helping trustees and pension fund managers understand performance measurement, attribution, and risk analysis.
The San Diego County Employees Retirement Association has terminated the employment of Jeffrey Baker, who had accused the fund’s investment team of failing to inform the its investment committee that risk budgets had been breached.
