New York will radically overhaul its pension system, consolidating the investment strategies for its five pension funds and reforming the governance structures of the funds. (more…)
OMERS continues its drive to bring more of its investment management in-house, recently announcing a major expansion of its investment operations with the launch of a New York investment office. (more…)
It’s no surprise to behavioural finance expert Professor Lisa Kramer that financial market dips and crashes typically happen in autumn. (more…)
CalPERS is undertaking sweeping changes to the way its board operates as part of a package of governance reforms to be rolled out in the coming year. (more…)
A number of policy-makers have blamed the decade-long rise in commodity prices and recent market volatility on the growing influence of financial investors and called for new regulation restricting their participation in commodity markets. Market financialisation has also led investors to worry about higher integration between commodity and traditional financial markets weakening the portfolio benefits of commodity investment.
EDHEC-Risk Institute Professor Joëlle Miffre addresses these concerns in a study released today entitled Long-Short Commodity Investing: Implications for Portfolio Risk and Market Regulation, produced with market data and support from CME Group.
Institutional investors need to be able to clearly define where returns are coming from in their hedge fund portfolios, whether it be alpha, hedge fund beta or market beta, and be conscious of the fees for each return source, principal and co-founder of AQR Capital Management, Cliff Asness, told delegates at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Beijing. (more…)