Sharp Rise in Infrastructure Inflows, and Asset Managers Notice
Investors and managers are betting the fairly undeveloped market won’t be like that for long.
News Archive: Jul - 2013
Moody’s Reviews Custodians for Downgrade over Profitability Fears
BNY Mellon, State Street, and Northern Trust don’t earn enough from core custody, Moody’s suspects.
Outsourced Due Diligence Teams Gaining Ground…and Power
Almost three-quarters have total veto power over hedge funds, a Deutsche Bank survey has found.
Even Static Rates Increase Liabilities, Redington Finds
Assets aren’t only affected when interest rates rise and fall: when they’re static it’s bad news for pension funds too.
Risk Parity: What’s Next?
In this second half of aiCIO’s feature into risk parity’s most traumatic quarter, Bridgewater, Invesco, AQR, Lombard Odier, and Northwater Capital outline the changes each has made to its risk parity product to help it withstand future hardships.
Risk Parity: What Happened?
In the first of a two-part feature, Bridgewater, Invesco, AQR, Lombard Odier, and Northwater Capital explain why their products’ returns recently fell, and why investors shouldn’t be concerned.
Japan Pension Makes First Direct Infrastructure Buy
Looking outside the Land of the Rising Sun for investments is becoming a trend for Japan’s pensions.
Fears over Future of US Multi-Employer Pensions
Taft-Hartley funds will have to adapt to survive, according to many of those running them.
Down With Quarterly Reports, Urges Pension Summit
At a Toronto summit,
institutional investors called for an end
to quarterly reports, and new era of asset owner collaboration.
Challenge on Fees, or Lose Money, Investors Told
An MSCI database of institutional fee deals shows a wide range of final terms, and scarce correlation between fees and performance.
How Could the Pension Protection Fund Fail?
The answer might surprise you. (Clue: it’s not capital-related.)
Happy Canada (Investment) Day!
Canadian pension funds (probably) celebrate the day with lots of investment news.
PFZW Stubs Out Tobacco From its Investments
The Dutch care and welfare sector pension fund finally throws the towel in on tobacco after negotiations to improve conditions fail.
Why Bureaucracy Has Killed Solvency II for Pensions
JP Morgan Asset Management white paper claims there are too many hurdles for IORP’s First Pillar to be put back on the table.