Irresistable opportunity in Nigeria
The offices of Nigeria’s biggest pension fund manager sit at the end of a quiet side street on Victoria Island, Lagos’s bustling financial capital. Inside Stanbic IBTC’s aptly named Wealth House, indicative of Nigeria’s growing savings culture, a throng of customers jostle to query staff on pension matters. Four flights up, 48-year-old chief executive Demola Sogunle is just back from…

CFA to lead industry out of crisis
Protecting the pension system is one of six key themes at the centre of the CFA Institute’s Future of Finance initiative as it aims to empower the investment industry to take leadership in restoring trust. Speaking at the sixty-sixth annual CFA Institute conference in Singapore this week, president and chief executive of the CFA Institute, John Rogers, said the industry has…

Diversification key for pioneer of fiduciary management
For someone whose ideas have revolutionised the Dutch pension industry and carried significant international clout, Anton van Nunen strikes a humble tone. Widely credited with pioneering fiduciary management from its infancy, Van Nunen confesses with a chuckle that it is “quite a surprise” that the concept has grown to win over a significant proportion of the Netherland’s mid-sized funds and…

Tail risk parity, V 1.0
Just when you thought you were safe, the next reiteration of risk parity has arrived. AllianceBernstein’s tail risk parity takes the concept of risk parity, reallocating assets uniformly according to risk, but it uses tail risk, not volatility, as the core measure. The concept of risk parity is a portfolio diversified according to risk, rather than capital allocations. Traditionally, risk parity…

Deutsche Bank’s carefully engineered fund
You would expect one of the biggest names in global finance to have a sophisticated pension fund, and on that measure the €7-billion ($9.2-billion) contractual trust arrangement (CTA) for Deutsche Bank’s German employees does not disappoint in the slightest. It has carefully engineered a diversified bond-led liability-driven investment (LDI) strategy that is supported by a vast overlay portfolio. Having a managing…

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Irresistible opportunity in Nigeria

The offices of Nigeria’s biggest pension fund manager sit at the end of a quiet ... [more]

CFA to lead industry out of crisis

Protecting the pension system is one of six key themes at the centre of the ... [more]

Diversification key for pioneer of fiduciary management

For someone whose ideas have revolutionised the Dutch pension industry and carried significant international clout, ... [more]

Tail risk parity, V 1.0

Just when you thought you were safe, the next reiteration of risk parity has arrived. ... [more]

Deutsche Bank’s carefully engineered fund

You would expect one of the biggest names in global finance to have a sophisticated ... [more]

Retirement: a cause worth working on

There are two things that drive the newly appointed global chief operating officer of State ... [more]

The Co-op’s equally split strategy

The United Kingdom’s Co-operative Group, a chain of food, funeral and financial services outlets, markets ... [more]

Pension funds, where banks no longer go?

There continues to be potential for pension capital appearing where bank lending no longer wants ... [more]

Building consensus for investment beliefs at CalPERS

An investment-beliefs workshop for the CalPERS board, held in April, revealed five areas, including active ... [more]