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A body of research demonstrates that a shift in mindset towards asset owners working together, while still maintaining genuinely productive competition, pays off for all stakeholders.
The rise of emerging markets-debt indexes
In the 1990s emerging markets-debt indexes were limited to external US-dollar-denominated sovereign debt but as interest in the asset class has increased so has the breadth and depth of available indexes. The JP Morgan family of emerging market-bond indexes contains some of the most widely used by investors. In the 2000s JP Morgan expanded its
Funds count costs of external asset management
Cost is the flagrant motivation in the trend for US pension funds to move assets in-house, but as this article explores, budgets also need to extend to the demands of investment research, travel and staff incentive compensation.
A broader view of risk
In the first of a series of contributed articles exclusively for conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com, global head of investment research at Mercer, Deb Clarke examines the decision making of long-horizon investors.
The lasting impact of pension nudges
Choices people make when they enter defined-contribution schemes tend not to change, even after fraud allegations, a paper from behavioural economist Richard Thaler and other academics states.
CalPERS gets dynamic in strategic plan
CalPERS aims to increase its total-portfolio risk oversight, as well as move towards more dynamic asset allocation as the fund attempts to overhaul its investment decision-making processes. This week the fund released a two-year business plan that aims to implement a risk-based dynamic asset-allocation approach by June 2014. It is the first time the $238.2-billion
Investing hybrid or armed wing of ministry?
France’s Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) has just provided fresh ammunition for critics who say the state-backed investor distorts markets by acting as the “armed wing” of the French finance ministry. On October 17, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault unveiled a new public investment bank, jointly owned by the CDC and the government, to lend
CPPIB launches unique in-house analysis engine
Internalising its portfolio accounting system has given CPPIB full control of its own data for the first time. Capitalising on this advantage, its total portfolio management department is building the capabilities to enable a consistent framework to better manage a broad range of risks across the entire fund, including a unique integrated model of public
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