The investment department of the $56 billion State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (STRSOH) will defer
the $3.39 million earned in performance-based incentive pay to future fiscal years conditional on certain hurdles, and a compensation study for investment associates will be completed by November.
SWFs return home after run of cross-border deals
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) piled a record $20 billion into foreign direct investment (FDI) transactions last year, continuing the big cross-border forays they began in 2005.
Infrastructure allocations below 3 per cent “meaningless”
Listed infrastructure drew attention last year for all the wrong reasons. Kristen Paech talks to Bruce Eidelson, San Diego-based director, real estate securities at Russell Investments, about the viability of the asset class post-crisis, and why privatisation in the US could boost US pension allocations.
Lessons for US investors in Railpen ‘say on pay’ report
A report conducted by the investment division of the ₤15 billion ($24 billion) UK pension fund, Railpen, examines the impact that six years of advisory shareowner votes have had on pay in the UK, leading to some important lessons for contemporaries in the US as they approach a similar regulatory environment and some recent leadership … Read more
Big Bond Bust
In his editorial in the latest edition of the FAJ, Richard Ennis calls into question the role of advanced, aggressive fixed-income strategies, questioning the suitability of such techniques in the part of the investor’s portfolio that bears the brunt of providing downside protection.
CalPERS on path to improving risk intelligence
The CalPERS governance risk management initiative (GRMI) project team, led by Allen Goldstein of The Results Group, has reported to the board on phase II of the project, concluding with 17 preliminary observations of areas of improvement.
