Articles and white papers for pension funds. The research in this category covers both defined benefit and defined contribution pensions funds worldwide. The most popular papers in this category tend to cover either the asset management of DB pension plans, or the design of DC pensions plans. For instance, on DB pensions, the most popular papers are...
a KPMG Survey of Liability-Driven Investing, a guide to re-orient investment strategy to the long-term, a study on allocating to infrastructure investments, and a framework to evaluate de-risking strategies. Whereas the most popular DC papers in this category cover selecting a default glide-path and DC design around the world. Most papers in this section are aimed at pensions managers and trustees, such as a paper on international pensions governance trends, and a guide to investment management agreements. For listings of more specific content - either by country or by DB/DC - please click on the appropriate section in the main menu.
Every quarter, our Content Team curates a unique list of the best asset manager salary surveys from around the world, providing our members with information on benchmark salaries for investment management professionals. These fund manager salary surveys cover a wide variety of roles within the asset management industry,…
This report by the Thinking Ahead Institute provides detailed analysis of the world's largest pension funds. Assets under management (AUM) of the world’s 300 largest pension funds totalled US$19.5 trillion in 2019, a gain of 8.1% versus the previous year. Defined Benefit pension assets account for 64.2% of this total. U.S.…
This annual survey report by the OECD is the sixth since the data collection exercise was first established in 2011. The scope of this report covers more than 100 public and private pension funds from 46 countries. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, and South Africa are amongst the non-OECD…
In a world of low return expectations and even lower interest rates, pension plans are re-evaluating their portfolios, looking for alternative ways to achieve return targets and improve funded status. Diversifying portfolios with real assets helps address these challenges. Real assets may reduce portfolio volatility, enhance…
Nuveen examines ways corporate pension plans at all funding levels can optimize their approach to portfolio construction and identifies how factor exposures and asset allocations shift when applying a factors-first approach.
The Global Pension Assets Study covers 22 major pension markets (the P22), which now totals US$52,522 billion in pension assets and account for 80% of the GDP of these economies. The study includes an analysis of the seven largest markets (the P7) which includes Australia, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and US…
No one was ready for 2020, but investors can be prepared for 2021 and, ultimately, look to a future envisaged before the pandemic hit. PGIM’s Annual Best Ideas: The Future in Focus, sheds light on the opportunities that they believe are worth watching in 2021.
Pension regulations in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands are similar to insurance regulation in the European Union. Solvency capital (SC) required for credit risk in corporate bond portfolios is close to its economic risk, while solvency capital for equity risk does not distinguish at all between low-risk and high-…
This is the second year that DWS has sponsored this report by CREATE-Research. Amongst other insights, this year’s survey confirms the on-going movement of passive investment into the mainstream with 66% of survey respondents considering passive index investing as a mature part of their portfolio.
Workforces around the world have experienced a number of serious challenges in recent years – from rapid globalization, to significant business cycle troughs, to fights for gender equality. Two trends, however, are today unprecedented in their scope: widespread societal aging, and the automation of work by intelligent…
A custom, multi-manager solution may provide some compelling benefits and enable DC plan sponsors to take their fixed income offering to the next level for plan participants.
A growing number of asset owners now expect their investment managers to incorporate ESG factors into their investment processes. This means that ESG needs to be at the core of the relationship between the asset owner and the investment manager – and that ESG considerations need to be addressed at every stage of that…
The Defined Contribution (DC) market is evolving and many plan sponsors are looking at innovative solutions to support their participants' retirement savings needs. Yet, many sponsors are looking for further support to help them implement and are thus evaluating OCIO (Outsourced Chief Investment Officer) solutions. The use…
The SECURE Act’s new requirement for standardized retirement income projections will present new challenges for your DC plan participants, especially when they realize the stream of income their current assets can support. This link between assets and future income will raise the profile of two conflicting considerations:…
If someone had told me, late in 2018, that over the next two years we would see forest fires devastate Australian wildlife; witness sightings in the US of a ‘murder hornet’ with the potential to disrupt food supplies; and, tragically, experience the spread of a global pandemic, which would infect two million and counting, I…
The number of public companies listed on public equity markets worldwide has experienced a significant decline in the past few decades. This development may reduce investment options and expected returns for retirement portfolios. One policy proposal being considered in many jurisdictions is to allow pension schemes,…
This is the Thinking Ahead Institute's latest annual Global Pension Assets Study. It covers 22 major pension markets which now total over US$46.7 trillion in pension assets, an increase of 15% in the 12-month period. The study examines the seven largest markets in more detail (US, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Japan, Canada…
There have been significant changes in the UK pension landscape in recent years following government action to dramatically increase participation rates. The policy of automatically enrolling eligible employees into a pension scheme has tackled some of the structural changes required. However, we can be under no illusion…
This report by the Thinking Ahead Institute provides detailed analysis of the world's largest pension funds. Assets under management (AUM) of the world’s largest pension funds totalled US$18.0 trillion in 2018, a fall of 0.4%, compared to an increase of 15.1% the previous year. In 2018 the value of the top 20 funds fell by 1…
