Funds managers, pension trustee boards and fund members should adjust to a low-returns environment and think carefully about investment risk in such uncertain times, warned Tim Gardener, global head of consultant relations at AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) and a veteran of the UK asset consulting industry.
Dutch Pension fund administrator APG will open up innovative investment ideas to other institutional investors, with the IMQubator hedge fund seeding platform it has backed launching a second fund to channel money to emerging managers.
CalPERS has hit out at a report calling for radical change in the way California public sector pension benefits are calculated, describing the authors’ methodology as flawed and ideologically slanted.
While the China-growth story was not new, an expert in investing in the region said investors should consider if their current exposure to the economic giant took advantage of where future growth was predicted to occur.
CalPERS is set to change its benchmarks for measuring performance compensation for senior investment staff so they are consistent with recent changes to its strategic asset allocation.
A year after the so-called flash crash damaged confidence in equities, exchange regulators across the world were scrambling to catch up, leaving investors with an increasingly complex range of market microstructures to navigate, experts said.
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