Texas Teachers, Xerox, SBCERA, Others Repeat As aiCIO Industry Innovation Award Nominees
UTIMCO, BP, and MassPRIM, along with a host of others, receive their first nods.
News Archive: Sep - 2012
President of Wilshire Funds Management Resigns
Jamie Ohl stepped down on Friday—Wilshire’s second high-level departure in less than six months.
SSgA Reorganizes at the Top
The firm has created a new role—global chief operating officer—and has seen its head of institutional sales and marketing depart.
BlackRock Fined £9.5m for Substandard Care of Client Money
BlackRock’s systems were “simply not adequate” to protect clients' funds, according to the FSA, which has handed a fine to the asset manager.
Alan Taylor Thinks De-Risking Is Worth the Cost
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Taylor, senior manager in European human relations at car-parts manufacturer DENSO, oversaw a breakthrough deal to secure benefits for members across different pension funds—allowing them to continue to accrue benefits while taking the risk off the corporate balance sheet.
Column: Off Target Date Funds
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Dr. Arun Muralidhar, chairman of Mcube Investment Technologies, on what's wrong with target date fund products.
Column: The Inflection Point
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Daniel Enskat, senior advisor to Asset International, on the changing makeup of asset management.
The Target Date Conundrum
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: How much custom is enough?
This Changes Everything
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: General Motors and the end of defined benefit as we know it. Benjamin Ruffel reports.
Andrew Ang Thinks Innovation Starts Small
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Ang, a professor of business, finance, and economics at Columbia University, aims to improve the welfare of asset owners—scrutinizing illiquidity, agency issues, factor investing, and other investing conundrums.
Less Than Great: How 2020 Will Be Nothing Like 1990
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Aran Darling looks ahead to the volatile 'new normal,' and discusses what an asset owner might do about it.
Are You Mispaying Your Manager?
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Paula Vasan examines a new way of compensating external asset managers.
Cultivation or Theft?
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Jordan Milne on how Canadian pension funds find and keep top talent.
Is Your Pension Baltimore or Scranton?
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Leanna Orr on the emerging trend of pensions lending, and not lending, to their governments.
How Much Money Are You Losing?
From aiCIO Magazine's September Issue: Elizabeth Pfeuti on the benefits--and difficulties--of asset pooling.