Hannah Brenton looks at whether pension funds could benefit from government plans to ease the rules on office-to-residential conversions
Rachel Dalton analyses a report that claims investors are piling into alternatives with little understanding
Pension funds run by specialist managers outperform funds run by balanced managers over 20 years, according to Cass Business School research.
Towers Watson said it has increased returns by persuading a selection of hedge fund managers to cut their performance fees.
Fund managers have skill and those displaying certain characteristics are worth an extra 5% per year to their fund, Inalytics claims.
Pension funds are shunning higher yielding secondary real estate property for pricier ‘prime' real estate, a report shows.
Mistakes made by asset managers are a better guide to individual investment skill than when managers outperform, Towers Watson says.
Deutsche Bank has announced a strategic review of its global asset management division, sparking expectations Germany's biggest bank could eventually put the unit up for sale.
UK fund managers are losing market share to alternative investments and must target broader assets owned by institutional investors to stave off further losses, McKinsey & Company say.
Institutional investors have poured £26m into F&C Investment's new climate change focused private equity fund of funds in a bid to target the burgeoning climate change investment sector.