In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of institutional content at Investment Magazine, chats with Aaron Minney, head of retirement income research at Challenger, about a range of topics including deaccumulation, sequencing risk and income generation in retirement.
Returns, resilience and reinvention: What private markets’ top brass are worried about
Senior executives from some of the world's largest private market managers gathered in Berlin this month with a collective understanding: managers who move slowly on AI face not just weaker returns but the risk of owning businesses that have been competitively displaced before they can exit.
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Make the most of your funds managers
Access to investment smarts and better fee alignment are just some of the benefits institutional investors can gain through their mandates with funds managers, says Craig Baker, global head of manager research with Towers Watson.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Conservative overweighting hinders world’s largest investor
An overweight allocation to domestic bonds has not helped the world’s largest investor in the June quarter, with a massive $42 billion shaved off the assets of the ¥116,802 billion ($1.37 trillion), Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF).mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Deflation: the taboo which needs to be examined
The funds management industry is famous for its navel-gazing. After a crisis, you can just imagine how much of it goes on. But, perhaps, that self-examination may provide more rewards if it starts to actually look at industry taboos rather than accepted practices.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
European pension funds have blinkered view of risk
The liability-hedging portfolio of European pension funds is imprecisely modelled at nearly half of the pension funds as measured in a EDHEC-Risk Institute survey.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Financial health reports essential says Mercer
After the damage of the global financial crisis, funds should be submitting themselves for voluntary financial health checks to diagnose vulnerabilities and pinpoint risks, asset consulting firm Mercer says. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Do funds of hedge funds really add value?
This paper, by Serge Darolles of Lyxor Asset Management, and Mathieu Vaissie, research associate at EDHEC-Risk Institute, looks at the performance of funds of hedge funds through the crisis, and introduces a return-based attribution model allowing for the full decomposition of funds of hedge funds’ performance.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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