Off The Record
Grappling with private equity
01 May 2013
Of the 24 respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey that hold private equity investments, 15 were happy with the number of individual fund commitments that their fund had in its portfolio. Of ...
Currency war? What war?
02 Apr 2013
Two-thirds of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey do not believe there was a genuine ‘currency war’ on, with about half of these believing it to be all media hype.
Shaky confidence returns
01 Mar 2013
Some 43% of those taking part in this month’s Off The Record survey were quite confident that the world economy and financial system are now over the worst.
Political considerations
01 Feb 2013
Two-thirds of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey have, over the past five years, taken action in their investments to try to adapt to a preponderance of political risk in financial...
Communicating risk to trustees
02 Jan 2013
Over 90% of participants in this month’s Off The Record survey said their fund had an investment committee, while 38% also had a risk committee. Around 28% additionally had other committee...
Rise of CTAs and global macro
01 Dec 2012
Of the 59% 0f respondents to this month’s survey that do invest in hedge funds, 10 invest via funds of funds and 10 invest direct – confirming a trend to combine the two approaches to the market. One ...
A crisis of confidence and trust
01 Oct 2012
Half of the respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey thought that quantitative easing (QE) and outright monetary transactions (OMT) were effective as emergency monetary policy measures in...
Bad to the bone
03 Sep 2012
Almost three-quarters of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey felt recent events, such as LIBOR-manipulation and mis-selling, point to major problems with the culture of banking.
Still life in the ‘supercycle’
02 Jul 2012
Eighteen respondents (56%) to this month’s Off The Record survey had commodities or commodity futures in their portfolio.
Risky business
01 Jun 2012
Some 43% of the respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey had investments that were not benchmarked. Of those respondents that did, it is no surprise that illiquid and non-listed assets...
Risky business
01 May 2012
Twenty-seven respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey used liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies. On average, 63% of their liability risk was currently hedged.
Boutique appeal
02 Apr 2012
Two-thirds of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey stated that their fund did not have any restrictions on allocating to boutique asset managers.
Consultants could improve
29 Feb 2012
Almost half of the respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey used
investment consultants on a retainer basis, although just slightly fewer used them on an occasional or project basis. Only...
‘Keep it simple’
01 Feb 2012
To mark our fifteenth anniversary, we asked 15 European pension funds about the past, present and future of pensions. Although eight respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey felt the trend...
Fear of euro-zone break-up takes hold
03 Jan 2012
Almost half of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey felt that the biggest credible threat to the global economy or financial markets in 2012 was the euro-zone break-up beginning to look...
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