Roundtable
P&I convened a round table because investment outsourcing has evolved from an obscure niche occupied by a handful of small players to one of the investment management industry's fastest-growing segments.
The big winners of the financial crisis might be the investment consultants.
Consulting firms have wrestled with conflicts of interest ever since they started competing with money managers through their manager-of-managers programs. In a Feb. 16 round table on the future of the investment consulting industry, panelists delved into the nature of these conflicts.
Institutional investors are worried about the prospects of inflation. but nobody expects inflation to emerge as a key issue for a number of years. At a recent round table, P&I asked five experts to examine the prospects for inflation — and how institutional investors can hedge their portfolios. Here's an excerpt.
If the Federal Reserve caves into political pressure and delays raising interest rates, investors should expect inflation to flare up down the road, participants at a Pensions & Investments round table agreed. (Includes podcast)
Institutional investors are examining every aspect of their hedge fund-of-funds portfolios and the managers in charge of them in the wake of the performance debacle of 2008, liquidity problems and the seismic shock of Bernard L. Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme.
Annuities as an investment option in DC plans have legal and fiduciary hurdles to overcome before there's any chance they'll become commonplace, members of a Pensions & Investments round table warned. (Includes podcast)
Industry leaders sit down with P&I to discuss what might be necessary to fix the damage that has hit defined contribution plans. (A round table excerpt.)
