liability driven investments

OPTrust is making investment look easy

Canada’s OPTrust has impressive stats. In 2015, it returned 8 per cent and remained fully funded. Its plans for the year ahead include infrastructure, hedge funds and managing even more in-house.

Sarah RundellJanuary 18, 2017

Billion-dollar beef-up at Barclays’ OPAM

If Tony Broccardo, head of Oak Pensions Asset Management, the investment arm of the £23-billion ($35.6-billion) pension fund for employees of London-headquartered bank, Barclays, wasn’t a fund manager he would have been an architect. But Broccardo has applied similar skills of stress testing, planning and making something structurally secure to the return-seeking fund, one of […]

Sarah RundellFebruary 20, 2013

Research

Hedging implications for
liability-driven investors

Managing surplus risk enables pension plans and endowments to align their asset allocations with their future obligations. Market Insight:Analyzing Hedges for Liability-Driven Investors seeks to better understand the drivers of surplus risk and to analyse the potentially subtle impact of specific hedges. In Goldberg and Kim’s case study, a term-structure hedge using an interest-rate swap […]

April 11, 2012