Does your portfolio have bad breadth? Choosing essential betas

In this article, Ed Peters, co-director of global macro at First Quadrant, Ed Peters, examines what markets, or betas, are essential to fully diversitfy a global portfolio, while still achieving long-term goals; and how breadth is often confused with diversification.

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Global equities lose ground to alternatives

Allocations to alternatives worldwide are expected to increase by more than 5 per cent at the expense of global equities in the next two years, according to Russell Investments 2010 global survey on alternative investing. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

….as TRS reports its largest ever return

An overweight position to global equities and credit has contributed to the Teachers’ Retirement System of Texas recording its best ever investment return: 35 per cent for the year to March 2010. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

“Korrupter” boss arrested at Swiss BVK fund

The chief investment officer for the Swiss Government’s Zurich cantonal pension fund, BVK, has been dismissed following his arrest on various “corruption” charges. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

North Carolina in need of ALM study, staff

The North Carolina Retirement System is in need of a formal asset liability study and is fundamentally understaffed, according to an independent review by Ennis Knupp commissioned by the State Treasurer. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

CalPERS internal team rivals external providers

Following a restructure of the team along functional lines, the CalPERS internal passive equity team is now able to handle any risk or complexity in the portfolio at least as well as any external manager, according to a review by its consultant Wilshire, although some extra coding of the Charles River system for compliance purposes

CalPERS to link pay with performance

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