It’s not really news but it’s comforting to have your observations confirmed when the annual Global Pension Asset Study is published. The Towers Watson report for 2010 shows a hiatus in the swing away from equities, stronger growth in Asia-Pacific than elsewhere, and a greater focus on risk by the major funds in the world’s
The Bolivian Government will nationalise the privately run pension system, with new pension reform law due to be implemented half way through this year. It follows reform from its southern neighbour, Argentina, which nationalised its $24 billion pension fund industry two years ago.
Pension funds had diversified into alternatives at the wrong time, CREATE’s chief executive, Professor Amin Rajin said, claiming pension funds were taking too long in their decision-making to make the most of opportunities available.
The Australian Future Fund’s former general manager, Paul Costello, is the chair of a committee advising the government on the implementation of what could be the most important reforms to the $1.3 trillion Australian superannuation industry since the introduction of compulsory super in 1992.
The ongoing saga of US investors’ right to have a say in corporate elections continues with the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) refuting the Business Roundtable’s (BRT) claims that the proxy rule will injure shareholder interests.
A three-way research collaboration, between State Street, law firm K&L Gates and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will deliver a series of bilateral webinars, thought pieces, research, and focused executive education programs, specifically for, and about, sovereign wealth funds.
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