Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal and chair of Ennis Knupp & Associates, Richard Ennis, believes contemporary asset allocation schemes are becoming unwieldy for many decision makers because of the proliferation and splintering of investment categories, and advocates an approach that relies more on empirical evidence than on assumptions or intuition.
As concerns in private credit mount, Colorado PERA CIO and COO Amy McGarrity says the pension fund isn’t seeing any strains in its growing allocation to the asset class, arguing that long-term investors are shielded from the risks because they can lock up their capital to weather market cycles.
On the eve of its centenary, Alecta’s head of investment management reflects on the low-cost, Sweden-centric, active in-house strategy which has kept the pension provider on top of its game.
The $33 billion PPF has an investment plan that sees it reducing the reliance on inflation and interest rate swaps, and better proof the portfolio from the looming cost of derivative strategies.
James Grossman, chief investment officer of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System, talks about driving diversification and the opportunities in corporate debt.
CIO of Hawaii’s largest pension fund has his work cut out to return the $14.1 billion Employees’ Retirement System back to the black. Vijoy Chattergy spoke about plans to crisis-proof HIERS.
Now responsible for implementation of the Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group recommendations, Edward Mason has only just begun to push the church’s brand of responsible investment and increasingly bold ethical purpose.
SWIB is in unprecedented territory with half of the fund’s assets in passive strategies. But it is building a portfolio of hedge funds and an internally managed, multi-asset division.
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