Wilshire Consulting’s annual report on US state retirement systems reveals near-universal underfunding, leavened only slightly by the 19.5 per cent rally in global equity markets in the eight months since its cut-off date.
OMERS overwhelms with underperformance
OMERS Strategic Investments, the investment entity of the C$47 billion ($45 billion) Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) focused on co-investment opportunities in private markets, has dramatically underperformed its benchmark for the year.
Do hedge funds’ exposures to risk factors predict their future returns?
This research examines hedge funds’ exposures to various financial and macroeconomic risk factors with the results indicating a positive and significant link between default premium beta and future hedge fund returns as well as a negative and significant link between inflation beta and future hedge fund returns.
Risk parity becomes bittersweet flavour of the month
A risk parity approach to asset allocation is flavour of the month, in spite, and because, of the leverage it requires. Amanda White explores the topic.
Ohio Police & Fire’s risk/return tradeoff
The Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund has overhauled its asset allocation, more than doubling fixed income and controversially introducing leverage at a policy level. As part of this new asset allocation, private market investments will double. Amanda White reports.
Institutions worldwide rethink passive exposures: Towers Watson
The number of bond mandates awarded by institutional funds shot up by more than 50 per cent in 2009 as credit markets provided attractive investment opportunities, while the amount of passive allocations made by institutions increased fourfold in the past two years, according to Towers Watson.
