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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CalPERS sharpens risk, liability tools

After watching the simultaneous declines of its market value and funded status during the financial crisis, the $204.8 billion CalPERS will conduct a full review of the methodologies underpinning its asset liability management (ALM) process. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Wilshire paints dire picture for state retirement systems

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. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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.

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.   mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

DC plans must look at governance and design

Towers Watson’s Roger Urwin and Gordon Clark from the University of Oxford are finalising their fourth collaboration on global best practice for defined contribution plans. Amanda White spoke with Roger Urwin about the inefficiencies in plan design. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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