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Do long-term mandates produce better results?
About 11 years ago, the Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Group came up with the concept of investors appointing managers for 10-year mandates. The consulting arm then started talking to clients about it in 2004/05 and the early mandates have now matured. So did it work? Do longer-term mandates produce outperformance, better behaviour and more security?
Maryland manager roster ready for change
Maryland is focused on improving its under-performing absolute return portfolio, reducing the number of managers and looking to new asset classes, including emerging markets and technology.
Why risk parity investors have lost faith
Denmark’s Kasper Lorenzen, group CIO at PFA explains why he’s lost his faith in risk parity.
Inside Canada’s exemplary pensions
A report by the World Bank showcases the features of the Canadian model that have made it the poster-child of good pension design.
CAAT sheds public equity
Canada’s fully funded Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Fund will move 15 per cent of its assets from public equities to real assets and private equity, following a review.
ESG almost an afterthought
Only 26 of 4300 companies surveyed by Governance Metrics International (GMI) have a specific clause that measures executive compensation against a sustainability metric, and institutional investors play a pivotal role in transforming this behaviour. Kimberly Gladman, director of research and risk analytics at the governance research company GMI, says investors should set the expectations that
PRI signatories to set priorities
PRI’s draft 10-year responsible investment blueprint will address desirable characteristics, drivers of change, and risks and opportunities within the financial system. Feedback from signatories will set priorities for the next decade.
Inside the Future Fund’s investment decisions
The $91 billion Australian Future Fund’s approach to investing is to get even more sophisticated as it borrows ideas and techniques from other investors, including the risk management and portfolio construction techniques of multi-strategy hedge funds. David Rowley speaks to CIO David Neal. Many will quickly tell you there is greater return to be made
SWIB sits out the long winter
SWIB is in unprecedented territory with half of the fund’s assets in passive strategies. But it is building a portfolio of hedge funds and an internally managed, multi-asset division.
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