Introducing specialist risk management professionals within the fixed-income team is one of Wilshire Consulting’s recommendations to CalPERS following its review of the internal team, investment process and resources.
Real estate and infrastructure shine in private markets
by GREG BRIGHT | August 25, 2010
Real estate and infrastructure are attractive investments in the private markets space, but individual investment selection has become more important in private equity and debt, according to the latest major analysis by global private markets investment management firm Partners Group.
China’s greening attracting more investment
by GREG BRIGHT | August 24, 2010
China is stepping up its clean energy drive, both through a reduction of its own emissions and by becoming the biggest supplier of some clean-energy equipment in the world. Picture (courtesy China Daily) shows cooling towers being demolished with explosives amid efforts to reduce emissions in Zoucheng, East China’s Shandong [...]
European pension funds skittish as more pain looms
by GREG BRIGHT | August 18, 2010European investors – and probably many others – are “understandably skittish”, according to Mercer Investment Consulting, as the risk of a double-dip recession has increased modestly, the consulting firm says in its latest medium-term valuation review.
Towers Watson names top 8 challenges for decade
by AMANDA WHITE | August 3, 2010Improving risk management practices and allocation of capital according to risk drivers rank among the most important challenges for institutional investors to overcome in the next 10 years, according to Towers Watson.
What now?
by AMANDA WHITE | July 27, 2010This RogersCasey position paper examines the inflation-deflation debate, and the strategic role of real assets in portfolios, concluding there will be higher volatility around long-term average inflation, and that clients should diversify away from US treasuries to protect against sovereign risk.
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