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- Changes in the Domestic Fixed Income Market that Reflect the E-commerce Revolution
- The E-commerce revolution and the Internet have created an explosion in access to timely data that is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. This paper addresses the implications of the technological changes as they affect several areas related to fixed income portfolio management. The volume and speed at which data is...
- White papers 2000-10-05
- Can Public Funds Compete?
- Recent research indicates that public fund returns lag those of corporate plans and endowments, even after adjusting for differences in risk. This presentation explains the methodology, conclusions, and preliminary findings as to what is responsible for this result. It concludes that the public fund lag is not attributable to fund...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Why Do Most Pension Funds Hold More Office Than Any Other Property Type?
- Perfect knowledge would have meant knowing that office, throughout the multi-cycle period, would turn out to be the riskiest of the major property sectors with the worst pay off for assuming risk compared with the other real estate sectors. This paper presents data showing risk has declined, although investors understand...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What Are The Keys To Successful And Active Intervention By GPs In Their Troubled Portfolio Companies?-Steps to Follow in a Distressed Situation
- Turning around a troubled portfolio company is time and resource intensive. Before making the decision to commit these valuable resources, GPs must carefully assess the situation and determine how troubled the portfolio company is and what actions and resources are required to rescue the company. The GP must then weigh...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Next Enron: Buying The Wrong Stock For The Right Reason
- This paper focuses on certain opportunities and risks associated with investing in stocks whose prices have fallen sharply. It explores whether the Wall Street adage, "Never catch a falling knife" is advice to be followed under all circumstances. It discusses a potential principal-agent conflict reasons why money managers may avoid...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Emerging Markets – The Current Debate
- The short-term case for investment in emerging markets is currently strong. Valuations are at attractive levels, interest rates are falling globally, domestic economic growth is healthy, and corporate earnings growth is sound. Indeed, the prospect of a major bounce in these markets over the next twelve months, as the world...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What's Non-Traditional About Investing In Timberland, Agriculture, Oil and Gas, And Power?
- This paper provides a cursory description and overview of the value of investing in timber and agriculture, the value and risks of investing in oil and gas, and a more detailed description and analysis of the value of investing in the power sector. This paper is meant to be provocative...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Global Pricing Of Equity And The Influence Of Industry Factors
- As the investment world becomes ever more integrated, a pronounced home bias and segmented approach to portfolio management should be supplanted by more holistic and global approach. Home bias is sometimes justified by the increased correlations between national stock markets, which reduces the benefit of international risk diversification. However, the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Asset Preservation Techniques—Are We Devoting Our Best Efforts?
- The emphasis on how value is created in real estate shifts during different cycles from understanding macro-trends to understanding micromanagement. In the 1990s, significant rental rate growth allowed investors in real estate to achieve high levels of returns through appreciation. The confluence of factors that created the environment where making...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Underfunded Pension Plans: Implications Going Forward Using Asset/Liability Modeling To Match Liabilities To Assets
- Pension plans are funded to provide an assurance that assets will be available to meet promised benefits. These benefits are not all paid immediately, but rather over a period. It is not required that all the assets necessary to make those future benefit payments be in the pension trust at...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Case For Global Real Estate Securities
- The maturation of the REIT market in the U.S. has paralleled the maturation of publicly traded real estate companies in other industrialized nations. Information technology, additionally, has facilitated the scrutiny and coverage of global real estate companies, letting investors access the growing global market in order to take advantage of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Will The New Economy Provide A Renaissance For Value Investing?
- Value investing, both in U.S. and in non-U.S. equities, has been a very successful strategy over the long term. A value approach to investing (paying as little as possible for fundamental intrinsic value, as measured by such attributes as earnings, book value, cash flow, or discounted dividends) has sharply under...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How Should An Institutional Real Estate Investor Proceed In the Context Of Today's Market Environment?
- The focus of this article is to find solution to a question addressed in this, as how should an institutional real estate Investor proceed in the context of today's market environment? In the context of trying to understand where we are and why, it would appear that the key factor...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Can Public Funds Compete?
- Recent research indicates that public fund returns lag those of corporate plans and endowments, even after adjusting for differences in risk. Possible factors, which are difficult to reject at this time, include differences in asset allocation, investment management strategy, staff compensation, and governance and cultural factors. All these factors have...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Fixed-Income Investments: Where Do We Go From Here?
- In an environment where the complexity and opacity of fixed-income investments has outpaced investors' understanding, it may be difficult to "know what you own." Such thinking can lead to reluctance on the part of portfolio managers to take meaningful Asset allocation risks against the index. Collateralized instruments, such as CMBS,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Small Isn't What It Used To Be: The Changing Face Of Smaller Investment Firms
- This article discusses the changing face of smaller investment firms. An astute plan sponsor will recognize that young firms are more likely to be risk-takers. It also may be true that these firms will be more likely to identify innovative strategies that will add value. Everything else being equal, the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Asset Allocation Strategies: The Next Round
- Institutional plan sponsors have traditionally based their overall portfolio allocations on historic assumptions about expected returns for individual asset classes. These assumptions are utilized to allow plan sponsors to create investment portfolios designed to meet certain goals, whether those are ensuring that a corporate pension plan can meet beneficiary payments...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Challenges For Global Stock Managers
- As an investment strategy, global stock investing is nothing new. However, true integrated global investing—allowing a manager the latitude to invest in any stock market in the world—has been slow to catch on among U.S.-based institutional investors. This may, however, be changing. It has been seen that three factors are...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Is International Still An Effective Diversifier?
- Over the five years, international equities as measured by MSCI EAFE have returned 3.7% annually in U.S. dollars, while the S&P 500 index returned 14.3% annually. Thus, EAFE under performed U.S. equities by an average of 10.6% a year over the past five years, the second-worst five-year comparative record that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Growth Vs. Value—Which Way From Here?
- Investment Managers only recently began to define themselves in terms of growth and value. The intensity of recent market rotations first to "growth" and then to "value" raises some interesting questions about these two particular investment styles which in the view of many industry participants have always been difficult to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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