The A$60 billion Australian Future Fund has joined other global investors, taking a stake in one of the world’s largest private equity firms.
Andra AP-fonden, Sweden’s Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) has taken a big hit from the turmoil in global markets, its capital value falling by SEK55.1 billion ($US6.6 billion) in 2008.
Defined benefit (“DB”) plans in the U.S. account for $2.3 trillion in assets and cover nearly 42 million plan participants, of whom over 20 million are active employees, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.1 Though shrinking in number, these traditional employee benefit plans remain an important part of the investment and retirement security landscape.
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is looking closely at taking stakes in banks across the US, Europe and Asia but its chief executive, prime minister, Sheik Hamad Al-Thani, warns banks to be open if they want to have meaningful relationships with sovereign wealth funds.
In a sign of the paranoid times, huge Dutch pension administrator Mn Services has installed a collateral management offering, which forms part of a counterparty risk management suite tailored for this environment by Omgeo.
Abstract: This report defines and explains the rise of investments outsourcing – the practice of delegating part or all of a portfolio to third-party, multi-asset specialists – among U.S. institutional
investors. The study presents key findings from a Casey Quirk survey of more than 20 of America’s largest investments outsourcing vendors.