An overweight position to global equities and credit has contributed to the Teachers’ Retirement System of Texas recording its best ever investment return: 35 per cent for the year to March 2010.
“Korrupter” boss arrested at Swiss BVK fund
The chief investment officer for the Swiss Government’s Zurich cantonal pension fund, BVK, has been dismissed following his arrest on various “corruption” charges.
North Carolina in need of ALM study, staff
The North Carolina Retirement System is in need of a formal asset liability study and is fundamentally understaffed, according to an independent review by Ennis Knupp commissioned by the State Treasurer.
CalPERS internal team rivals external providers
Following a restructure of the team along functional lines, the CalPERS internal passive equity team is now able to handle any risk or complexity in the portfolio at least as well as any external manager, according to a review by its consultant Wilshire, although some extra coding of the Charles River system for compliance purposes is recommended.
Ghana wins Equity World Cup
The S&P Equity World Cup was simulated with data drawn from the S&P Global BMI, comprised of the S&P Developed BMI and the S&P Emerging BMI.
CalPERS to link pay with performance
The CalPERS board will have the discretion to reduce or eliminate investment staff performance pay in years of negative performance of the fund, in a revised compensation plan to be presented to the board this week, chief investment officer Joe Dear told conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com.
