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EPFR cumulative weekly flows into major fund groups
Source: EPFR Global.
SAM RILEYMarch 2, 2012
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Proposed benefit plan to provide marginal savings
A cost-risk analysis of a proposed hybrid defined contribution/defined benefit plan proposed for California shows that it would provide marginal overall cost savings to government, CalPERS analysis has revealed.
SAM RILEYFebruary 29, 2012
Investor Profile
AP3 drives further portfolio diversification
Investment staff at Sweden’s Third National Pension Fund, AP3, have discretion to make tactical decisions as part of a dynamic asset allocation strategy that along with a drive to diversify investments aims to achieve an ambitious 4 per cent real return target.
SAM RILEYFebruary 29, 2012
Asset Classes
A giant takes its first small steps in infrastructure
In 2008 CalSTRS decided on building an exposure to infrastructure that eventually would total $3.5 billion or 2.5 per cent of its more than $148 billion overall portfolio. An experienced investor in other asset classes, it was a relative newcomer to infrastructure.
SAM RILEYFebruary 24, 2012
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Infrastructure comes of age in low returns environment
As cash-strapped governments around the world come under pressure to sell public assets, capital-intensive investors are searching for stable yielding investments, bringing the maturing infrastructure asset class back into the framework. Sam Riley looks at examples from around the world.
SAM RILEYFebruary 24, 2012
Asset Classes
A new card for an old infrastructure hand
With more than $A5 billion ($5.3 billion) invested in infrastructure through some 120 different types of assets, AustralianSuper is examining whether diversity is all its cracked up to be when it comes to infrastructure investing.
SAM RILEYFebruary 24, 2012