Tag: Investment Managers

While much time is spent selecting investment managers, not nearly enough time is spent in establishing a processing for terminating such managers, says a recent paper from the...

Five years is something of an eternity when forecasting equity market risks and returns, but Northern Trust sees reason for optimism in its latest long-term capital markets outlook.

A recently introduced mutual fund from Pacific Life Funds offers a simplified approach to alternatives investing, with the goal of increasing overall portfolio diversification.

Interest in specific investment outcomes is likely to drive continued institutional exchange-traded fund (ETF) adoption, according to Cerulli Associates.

American Century Emerging Markets Debt, American Century Strategic Income and American Century Short Duration Strategic Income were rolled out by American Century Investments.

Retirement plan sponsors may want to offer so-called responsible investment options in their plans, but may have some concerns.

The financial crisis taught institutional investors many tough lessons, says Alexi Maravel, associate director at Cerulli Associates, including the importance of non-correlated assets in periods of market stress.

The Seeyond Multi-Asset Allocation Fund from Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) invests in stocks, bonds and volatility as an asset class.

Prudential Retirement has promoted Gary Ward to head the firm’s stable value organization.

Nationwide Retirement Solutions has released the Nationwide Diverse Managers Fund.

Natixis Global Asset Management announced plans to fund a research project focused on investor behavior and personal financial benchmarking, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

A pension plan transaction recently announced by British Telecom, offers a glimpse of a coming pension risk transfer option for U.S. defined benefit plan sponsors.

Though the United States continues to face macroeconomic challenges, more elements of the economy are contributing to healthier growth, says Bob Doll of Nuveen Asset Management.

Prudential Investment Management has named Michael Schlachter as the head of its multi-asset class solutions group.

Prudential Fixed Income expanded its emerging markets team with the hiring of Matthew C. Duda.

“Home country bias” is a diversification problem that is still dogging investors, new research suggests.

Evanston Capital Management has released its Evanston Alternative Opportunities Fund.

A manager of managers approach may help defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors offer more diversified investment options to participants without overwhelming them with too many options or increasing...

Whether a target-date fund (TDF) series is considered “to” or “through” retirement is not the appropriate basis for determining its peers for comparison, contends Cammack Retirement Group.

Target-date funds (TDFs) are an important tool for workplace retirement investors, says Steven Anderson, of Schwab Retirement Plan Services, but more efficient methods of delegated lifecycle investing are...