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A look at designing and implementing long-term pension investment mandates

mschmit — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 06:13:24 +0000

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 can take additional steps to better embed long-term principles throughout the entire investment cycle, according to a working paper by Alfred Slager, a professor of pension fund management at […]

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First State Super, VicSuper merger update

mschmit — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 05:25:21 +0000

For pension plans, consolidation can come with benefits. And around the world, funds are announcing they’re moving forward with plans to merge. In Canada, members of the United Steelworkers locals at the University of Toronto, University of Guelph and Queen’s University voted in June to create a jointly sponsored plan, with the goal of transferring […]

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The Price of Certainty

mschmit — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:00:53 +0000

Dutch “Pension funds have to report on their coverage ratio on a quarterly basis. And this is where the problems start.”

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