Pension funds
A liability defined
As pension funds focus more on liabilities, pension indexes are emerging to help them meet their obligations. But just how useful are they? John Ferry reports
Pension fund managers have traditionally shied away from using credit derivatives. But in the current climate of ultra-narrow spreads, trying to outperform the market without using credit default swaps...
The demise of Delphi, Northwest and Delta has intensified concerns over underfunded US pensions. Nadia Damouni reports on whether new laws can shore up the system
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A false sense of security for pension fund trustees?
A report showing a reduction in pension funding shortfalls in the UK was thrown into sharp relief by JPMorgan research suggesting the funding gap could be much higher than previously feared. Credit looks at the ramifications of the reports
Understanding variations in the risk of multi-strategy portfolios
Investors spend a great deal of time and effort setting a thoughtful risk budget for their portfolio,only to see all too frequently that the targeted risk will be missed by a wide margin when theinvestment process gets started. In this article, Gang Jiang,...
Increasing returns through managing risk at source
The world's largest pension fund, Calpers, has adopted an aggressive approach to corporate governance. Can this policy decrease risk and increase returns in its equity portfolio? Rachel Wolcott speaks to Christy Wood, who runs the fund's corporate governance...
Hedging of corporate pension liabilities
Bernd Scherer here proposes a normative theory of asset/liability management that views externally funded pension funds exclusively from a corporate finance point. Standard asset management solutions are derived after the corporate finance problem has...
Basel Committee announces "no action" on accounting issues
On Tuesday the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a press release on the potential impact on regulatory capital of the implementation of certain International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Trema survey highlights poor operational risk controls
Trema, the Sophia Antipolis-based provider of asset management technology, has released the results of its Asset Management STP Survey conducted between June and August this year.
Asset manager technology hinders op risk management
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