Studying the active management environment

In this timely analysis, Wurts & Associates examines the active management environment, warning investors of the pitfalls of studying and choosing active managers including a reminder that reaching for high levels of benchmark relative excess returns can be potentially rewarded, but only in a marginal way relative to lower tracking error managers. It also concludes that measuring managers relative to capitalisation-weighted benchmarks isn’t fair.

 

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Inflation fears for European funds

European pension funds are increasingly worried about inflation and are taking action to diversify their investments to include a range of inflation-linked debt and are looking to emerging markets, a new survey reveals.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Texas launches quarterly reports for flagship fund

The Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS) has outlined a set of five investment performance measurement priorities, which include a new detailed quarterly report for the internally actively managed $19.9 billion global best-ideas flagship fund, and incorporating external managers’ signals into the investment process to enhance performance.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Climate change needs a brand makeover

Can the seemingly insatiable appetite for anything Facebook guide the pension industry on how to create the same demand, and market, for climate change?mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Australia’s Future Fund looks to tangibles

The A$72.9 billion ($78.9 billion) Australian Future Fund will ramp up its tangible asset investments this quarter to more than 14.5 per cent of the fund with a long-term goal of lifting that to 25 per cent, a spokesman said.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

De-risking needs buy-in: Mercer

Determining a pre-defined strategy and committing to it is the key to dynamic de-risking, according to executives at Mercer in Canada, who are seeing a lot of interest in the strategy, but hesitancy in implementation.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Wurts warns on risk chasing

Investors should avoid embracing more risk to chase returns, despite buoyant equity markets defying recent global shocks, warns American institutional investment consultant Wurts and Associates.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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