The fact that pension funds are hoping for high returns should make politicians pause.
While no big pension fund is imperiled, Hackel writes more corporate cash will be have to be deposited in pension funds.
The higher taxation of foreign pension funds may result from the levying of withholding taxes on dividend and interest payments.
Mr Shan's investors are mostly the same ones who backed him while he was at TPG - big pension funds and sovereign pools of money from singapore and China.
One reason why the British inflation-linked yield is so low is that so many pension funds own the bonds for accounting reasons.
The government can manage pension funds directly.
The difference between pension funds and mutual funds goes way beyond what gets recorded as expenses.
Allow locally incorporated Banks to obtain custody licenses to manage insurance funds, trustee products, private equity funds, social security and pension funds.
And pension funds may not withdraw large sums when it is hard to make handsome returns elsewhere.
As just one of many examples, CalPERS outperformed almost all other large public pension funds for fiscal 2014 (leaving aside its hedge fund troubles).
One useful change would be for regulators to make it clear to trustees of foundations and pension funds that “social-impact investments” are a legitimate asset class, says Sir Ronald.
The accumulated pension funds must go into the capital market for preserving and increasing the value. It is time for the pension funds to enter the capital market.
Buyout firms also worry that bank-run funds will lure away money from pension funds and other investors that they themselves might otherwise have got.
But India lacks a local equivalent. Its occupational pension funds hold assets worth 2.5 trillion rupees, only about 5% of GDP.
But is this what pension funds and endowments really want?
First she ramped up taxes on farmers, then last year she nationalised private pension funds.
Some of the pension funds they will need when they retire may, in fact, be invested in high-risk stocks, mutual funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and even hedge funds.
The most important change involves investment in pension funds.
The recession battered all states’ pension funds, but some were less equipped to take it than others.
Perhaps that is because the much-maligned retail investors who back Fidelity or Vanguard are much more patient clients than the pension funds or super-rich who invest in hedge funds.
You managed Harvard's endowment during a turbulent time, and you advise several other endowments and state pension funds.
That would hurt pension funds, which bought them, and send congressional leaders into a spin.
And so it is with other pension funds.
The second study** looks at traditional fund managers, those who run mutual funds and stockmarket portfolios on behalf of pension funds.
The biggest Banks each have hundreds of billions of dollars of such debt, including overnight loans from other Banks, short-term paper sold to money-market funds and bonds held by pension funds.
They could also enjoy increased demand from Banks and pension funds as a result of new international banking rules and proposed reforms to pensions accounting.
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