In analysis completed for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, Mercer has conducted a survey of active management, assessing the use and performance of active management at the total fund and asset class levels for 14 pension funds with combined assets of $950 billion, including eight funds from Europe and three from North America.
Mercer, Norwegian Ministry of Finance
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Mercer Investment Consulting has published its predicted top trends for pension funds in 2011. With continued economic uncertainty around the world, Mercer expects further tight credit markets, a re-evaluation of the equity risk premium, concern about currency risk, and further allocations to emerging markets.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The demographics driving the funds management industry, of ageing populations almost everywhere, are more complicated than you think. Greg Bright spoke to the Asia Pacific leader for Towers Watson, Bob Charles, who is a demographics expert, about the real demographic problems facing the world.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Bonds are the favoured asset class at 53 per cent among European sustainable and responsible investors with equities dropping to 33 per cent, according to a Eurosif SRI report.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
With bond yields at historic lows, particularly in the US, pension funds have been searching for new forms of downside protection to reduce tail risk, boosting demand for certain types of hedge funds in the process. In the US, too, where demand is invariably met by a quick supply of new products, specialist ‘tail-risk funds’
Foundation and endowment funds are allocating the largest percentage of alternatives to their portfolios, with public funds coming second ahead corporate plans in third place.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Indexes are important for pension funds. They benchmark the fund’s performance against goals and peers. They allow the fund’s managers to be measured and often times they decide the managers’ remuneration. You would think, then, that there must be a lot of science behind their use.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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