In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with Veronica Klaus, general manager – investment consulting at Lonsec, about a range of topics including the advice gap, allocations for retirement, liquidity in private assets and income strategies for retirees.
Returns, resilience and reinvention: What private markets’ top brass are worried about
Senior executives from some of the world's largest private market managers gathered in Berlin this month with a collective understanding: managers who move slowly on AI face not just weaker returns but the risk of owning businesses that have been competitively displaced before they can exit.
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Record losses for UK DB plans underscored by reliance on markets…
Five consecutive days leading into March were the most volatile on record for UK final salary pension schemes since accounting standards were changed in 2001, reflecting the risks associated with funding dependence on investment markets. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Private equity NAVs to fall further, but 80% discounts are unjustified
While the net asset values (NAVs) of private equity funds have been spared the steep declines taken by major indexes, the reporting lags inherent in private equity fund valuations should unveil double-digit losses for the first half of 2009. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Feeling the force of falling endowments
A number of Ivy League universities – including Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) – are directly feeling the affects of the negative performance of their endowment funds, and are being forced to cut operating budgets for the 2009/10 financial year. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
SWFs experience 18 per cent growth amid global downturn
Despite recent investment losses, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) collectively grew by 18 per cent in 2008, bringing the sum of assets held by the vehicles to US$3.9 trillion, a report from International Financial Services London (IFSL) found. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Best ideas exist, so why do managers include underperformers?
Randy Cohen from Harvard Business School, Christopher Polk from the London School of Economics, and Bernhard Silli from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the London School of Economics, provide powerful evidence that mutual fund managers can pick stocks that outperform the market. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Giant Texas plan defers performance pay for execs
Chief investment officer of the US$81 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Britt Harris, has offered to forego an estimated $167,935 in performance incentive pay for 2008. At the most recent board meeting, the TRS board accepted Harris’ offer and also voted to defer all remaining investment division performance pay until the fund experiences a
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