Analysis & Research
Top ESG trends for 2020: MSCI
BY Staff | January 20, 2020
Climate change’s ramifications for real estate, the rise of innovative technologies and the changing nature of stakeholder activism are some of the environmental, social and governance trends ...
A look at designing and implementing long-term pension investment mandates
BY Staff | January 10, 2020
With any pension investment, plan sponsors must follow the same steps: set a policy, select asset managers and ensure strong governance, monitoring and evaluation. Pension funds ...
Are the days of monetary policy coming to an end?
BY Kelsey Rolfe | January 9, 2020
The days of monetary policy as the most effective tool for stimulating the economy are over, as central banks around the world are increasingly limited ...
Fixing the mismatch between risk management and asset allocation time horizons
BY Yaelle Gang | November 25, 2019
Many pension plans use risk systems to test how different scenarios would affect their portfolios. Traditionally, risk models use thousands of scenarios. The likelihood that these ...
How past performance impacts pension plans’ return targets
BY Staff | November 22, 2019
While the fact that past performance is not a guarantee of future results is a familiar refrain, it appears public pension funds’ return expectations do ...
