Great year for Ontario Teachers still not good enough
Pity the folks at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. They shot the lights out with investment performance last year and the fund is still in the red.
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It’s all good: the lessons of the past three years
The positions have changed, over the past three years, in the food chain of professional funds management, away from the manager and towards the fiduciary. And it is not just the large fiduciary funds which can benefit from the trend.
Long-term risks and the human factor for fiduciaries
While risk for investment portfolios has been well-studied in the light of the financial crisis – if insufficiently before – the notion of long-term risk is still underexplored, according to Roger Urwin.
Deepwater execs strike oil with safety bonuses
As incongruous as it sounds, executives at Transocean Ltd – the company that owns the Deepwater Horizon oil rig which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year killing 11 people – have been paid bonuses for their improved safety performance.
The cult of transparency has a price
You have to feel sorry for the investment professionals at large public sector pension funds around the world. They must pay a big price for the transparency of their funds.
Hang the expense: Norwegian fund chases Spanish alpha
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund has outsourced the management of its Spanish equities to one of the country’s top-performing managers.
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