risk mitigation

HOOPP ponders re-allocating risk

Canada's Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan is considering adding to its celebrated strategy with moves into reinsurance and infrastructure, based on forecasts of rapid growth in its assets.

Sarah RundellAugust 6, 2018

OECD leads global infrastructure push

The OECD seeks to lengthen the time horizons of investors and get institutional money flowing from across the world into infrastructure gaps.

Dan BillinghamOctober 2, 2013

Institutional investors need to be conscious of cyber threats, especially from the Chinese, who are interested in macroeconomic changes that may result in large amounts of money moving around, according to James Mulvenon, vice president of the defense group at the Center for Intelligence Research Analysis. Mulvenon says the risks to companies of their intellectual […]

Amanda WhiteAugust 28, 2013

Investor Profile

New Jersey: a state of long-term agility

As another fiscal year draws to a close Tim Walsh, director of the New Jersey Division of Investment, investment managers of the $75.64-billion New Jersey Pension Fund, reflects on another good year. “It’s been a double-digit year with the best asset classes, plain vanilla US equities and structured credit,” he says speaking from the Division […]

Sarah RundellJuly 19, 2013

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With overvalued sovereign bond markets, how do you go defensive?

With continued, or even increased, nervousness surrounding the short-term future for most markets, the question of risk mitigation has once again come to the fore for institutional investors. But for defined benefit funds, in particular, this is an especially curly question.

GREG BRIGHTAugust 18, 2010