France’s penchant for social demonstration targeted pension reform this week, with more than one million people striking over proposals to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62. The scenes could act as a warning to other countries with similar pension shortfalls. (more…)
The largest 20 funds managers in the world lifted their combined market share last year as the industry recovered from two years of funds under management outflows. (more…)
Edward Qian, CIO of PanAgora Asset Management, coined the term “risk parity”, but he says there are misconceptions about how the approach uses leverage which, if used incorrectly, undermines its essence – risk diversification. (more…)
The US asset management and consulting arena is undergoing massive change, with large institutions re-allocating away from domestic exposures potentially having a big effect on the market, president of Rogerscasey, Tim Barron, says. (more…)
Some sort of shape is starting to take place, post-global crisis, as to how the biggest, longest-term investors are spending their money. If the endowment model was the one to follow for the past 20 years, the sovereign wealth fund model may be the one to follow for the next. (more…)
The Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden were ranked the top three countries for their pension systems in the second annual study which rated adequacy, sustainability and integrity of both public and private pensions around the world. (more…)