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No free lunch in asset allocation

In his editorial for the November/December issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, Richard Ennis confidently consigns the term “uncorrelated return” to the scrap heap of asset allocation lingo, reminding readers there is no free lunch in asset allocation, and that in order to collect the risk premium, investors must also bear the risk.
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Japan’s pension giant hires, fires managers while buying up domestic bonds

The world’s largest institutional investor, the Â¥122,100 billion ($1.4 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF), has increased its allocation to domestic bonds and short-term assets at the expense of international bonds and domestic and international equities in the six months since the end of its fiscal year, a period which saw 12 managers […]
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