News Archive: Feb - 2012

Investors need to better understand how tail risk hedging works, the tradeoffs involved, and how the costs are determined, according to a whitepaper by BNY Mellon. 

Investors looking to tap global growth in stressed markets should look outside their usual value-focused remit, Mercer Investment Consulting says. 

If there are two overriding trends amongst corporate pensions, they are investment outsourcing and liability-driven investing (LDI). Sun Chemical, choosing to focus on its core competency, is doing both.

The global financial crisis of 2008/2009 has led to disillusionment with traditional approaches to diversification and has resulted in the growing popularity of hedging as a tool for lowering risk, a recent paper by BNY Asset Management claims. 

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has been called in to review the Irish pension system as the Eurozone nation flounders in recession.

John Johnson, the interim chief investment officer of the $6.5 billion Wyoming Retirement System, says thoughts of market volatility cause him many a restless night's sleep.  

Larger Australian asset pools will lead superannuation chiefs to reconsider their investment options and dump domestic providers, a new study has found.

Higher energy prices are contributing to soaring commodities prices, as they "sow the seeds of their own self destruction," a recent paper by Morgan Stanley Investment Management asserts. 

Both the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global and Yale University's endowment -- run by the popular David Swensen -- have emerged as industry pillars in asset management, and a new paper compares and scrutinizes their reputations.