Latest White Papers
Target-date fund adoption in 2012
Author(s): Jean Young, Senior Research Analyst, Vanguard Center for Retirement Research
Published: April 01, 2013
In 2012, more than one-third of participants in defined contribution plans for which Vanguard provides recordkeeping were invested in a professionally managed account option and 27% were invested in a single target-date fund (TDF). Use of TDFs in DC plans continue to grow rapidly.
Risk Premia Investing
Author(s): Andrew Weisman, Chief Investment Officer, Liquid Alternatives Group, Janus Capital Group
Published: April 01, 2013
Risk premia-based investing represents a noble concept to achieve greater portfolio diversification. This whitepaper addresses key philosophical and definitional issues related to risk premia investing and explores the role that low statistical dependence risk premia building blocks may play in improving investment outcomes.
Managing Event Risk in the U.S. Corporate Bond Market
Published: April 17, 2013
Prudential Fixed Income looks at the economic and market factors driving the recent rise in adverse event risk in the industrial corporate bond sector and discusses steps that investors can take to manage the potential negative impact on bond portfolios.
Why is annualizing risk properly so important?
Author(s): Carl Moss, Senior Managing Director, INTECH and Vassilios Papathanakos, Ph.D., Deputy CIO, INTECH
Published: April 01, 2013
Properly measuring risk, and accounting for it when assessing the value of future returns, is fundamental to investing. We explain how to simply tailor the estimation of the standard deviation of a potential investment to match an investor's risk profile.
Transition Management: Eight guidelines for choosing a trusted provider
Author(s): Steve Kirschner, Director Transition Management
Published: April 01, 2013
Choosing a transition management provider is a decision that can have significant financial consequences. There is no simple formula to steer this decision. What are practical steps institutional investors can use to identify a trusted transition manager?
A Credit-Based Yield Strategy
Author(s): Robert M. Hall, Institutional Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager, MFS Investment Management
Published: April 01, 2013
This paper examines two of the most prevalent risks in fixed-income management — interest rate risk and credit risk — and offers MFS’ thoughts on how to respond to those risks as well as long-term opportunities for alpha generation.
Is Active Equity Management Alpha on Permanent or Temporary Disability?
Author(s): Tina Byles Williams, Chief Investment Officer & Chief Executive Officer, FIS Group
Published: April 11, 2013
Weighing in on the perennial active vs. passive management debate (particularly, Large Cap equity managers) our discussion focuses on active share to both define active management and to evaluate trends in the relationship between active management and alpha.
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