A desire to hedge the portfolio against extreme market risks and rising inflation, has resulted in the $220 billion CalPERS departing from its traditional asset allocation after a year-long review, and introducing the allocation of assets according to five broad groups.
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 … Read more
Agency risk at the fund level … and happy holidays!
If this is a time of year for reflection on a personal level, perhaps with some plans for self-improvement over the next year, whether it be more time with the family, get fit, etc, then it may also be a good time to consider the human element in the management of a fiduciary fund.
NEST broods on SRI choice
The UK’s National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will offer members a socially responsible investment fund, one of the first investment decisions the trustee board has made as it finalises its investment strategy.
Now this is a merger: NZ mulls mega-fund
The New Zealand government could create a single NZ$40 billion ($30 billion) fund under a proposal mooted in its inaugural ‘Investment Statement’ published this month. 
Cancun does not solve key issues: Sorensen
The international climate process survived at COP16, but the UN Cancun Agreement does not solve key issues such as legally binding emission targets and carbon pricing, according to chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, Ole Beier Sorensen.
