Fear the Boom and Bust

With a festive tongue firmly in cheek, this video may provide a welcome smile at the end of a challenging year for many fiduciary investors.

The global financial crisis triggered a revival in the popularity of interventionist Keynesian economics – but the free marketeers of Friedrich Hayek’s Austrian School won’t give ground easily. Here, Keynes and Hayek reinvent themselves and put forward their arguments via the medium of rap.

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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

AIMCo splits top job, beefs up investment team

The C$69 billion ($66 billion) Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) will split its chief executive and chief investment officer roles, with Leo de Bever retaining the chief executive position, while a search is underway for a new CIO. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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