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		<title><![CDATA[Seeking Returns In Global Markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73894]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The benefits of a global allocation strategy are to improve the overall portfolio return, by reducing aggregate risk and to add excess return through regional and country weighting strategies. Considerations of macro changes from a local economic perspective will yield greater efficacy in realizing greater returns. Seeking yield by moving...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Office Exposure In A Real Estate Portfolio : But At What Price?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73899]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors have not historically priced risk accurately and, as a result, have not been appropriately compensated for bearing the incremental risk, which characterizes this sector. However, this cannot be expected to persist assuming rational capital market behavior. The speed and magnitude of the potential pricing shift discussed above will depend...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Difficulty Of Finding Good Acquisitions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73887]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The current real estate investment environment is one of conflicting messages, making it difficult to find good acquisitions. Fundamentals are languishing and in some cases, deteriorating, due to the impact of the recession. On the surface, it seems that the combination of weak fundamentals and high asset prices would preclude...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Practical Strategies For Managing Risk And Adding Value To Your Portfolio]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73889]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article encodes a suggestion that applies both to risk management and adding value: an investor today can add much more value to its overall program, and better manage its risk, by top-down strategic planning and developing clear investment guidelines, benchmarks and processes to achieve the strategy and measure the value...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Asset Preservation Techniques—Are We Devoting Our Best Efforts?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73916]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bear Market Impact On Pension Funding Issues And Asset Allocation Decisions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73073]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article reveals the impacts of bear market on pension funding issues and decision making for asset allocation. Pension funds have been put under enormous pressure by the recent disruptions in the capital markets. With assets and liabilities moving in opposite directions, many plan sponsors have seen their funded status go...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investing In International Small Company Stocks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73076]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article talks about the effect come up with the investment made in international small company stock. It states that the smaller the stocks the higher the return so that the highest returns were from the very smallest stocks in the market. The smaller company effect thus became one of the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[After 100,000 Miles, It's Time To Look Under The Hood : Fixed Income Portfolio Management For The Next Decade]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73082]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, the concentration of fixed income flows into a small number of investment management firms has been quite significant. This trend, combined with a decreasing capital commitment from Wall Street, introduces the question of "How Does Size Impact Investment Strategy?" The inherent risks and implications of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Ideas For Asset Allocation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73092]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article summarizes several techniques that investors can use to improve their asset allocation process such as mean-variance approach that tends to favor higher estimates of return, lower estimates of volatility, and low correlation's, James-Stein estimation a type of Bayesian analysis that combines data with insight or a prior belief to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Asset Allocation: Concept in Play]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73181]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Presently time is very complex and dangerous for the world. Past patterns of economic leadership can no longer be relied upon to forecast the future and the threats to the larger economies are growing from both economic and political developments. This has led some commentators to argue that it is...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Will the Other Shoe Fall : Managing the Expectations Of Institutional Investors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73183]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Article asks about whether we are market timers or asset allocators. In the present scenario, we act as both. Investing for the long term in a stable income-oriented strategy anticipates market declines and incorporates those expectations into the underwriting. The issue of risk is more problematic to discuss in a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Are the Keys to Successful and Active Intervention by GPs in Their Troubled Portfolio Companies?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73193]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When portfolio companies become troubled, the General Partner's role is to determine if outside intervention is required and, if so, which resources must be brought to bear and in what time frame. Most portfolio companies do not experience severe distress; however, companies under perform sufficiently often that the General Partner...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Will Big “Consolidator” REITs Perform Against Their Competitors and Why Is There Such Underperformance?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73195]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The heart of the question is whether the strategy of pursuing size is valid. If one is a general REIT investor, the answer has been clearly yes. These companies have provided durable and superior returns, while providing liquid access to a diverse and appropriately levered core real estate portfolio. The...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Case for Non-U.S. Equity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73196]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It is believed that there are several important reasons for investors to look to non-U.S. markets when making investment decisions. By investing in non-U.S. markets, investors can increase their return potential through owning leading companies in non-U.S. countries, while decreasing portfolio risk. Investment professionals experienced in managing non-U.S. equity can...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Asset Allocation: Deciding Between Venture Capital and Buyouts - II]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73361]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Firms that have produced the top quartile returns have been able to raise larger funds in very short periods of time. On the other hand, newer funds or funds performing at or below the median have struggled with fundraising. The dollar volume of commitments to the private equity industry increased...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[America’s Real Estate Megatrends]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73406]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article talks about evaluation of the long-term patterns that will affect real estate supply and demand, relative performance of the asset class, risks that are not paramount today, and future geographic shifts. As these big picture trends emerge slowly, they change infrequently. In fact, the first two demographic megatrends...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What is Core Real Estate? Where are the Opportunities Today?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73409]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article talks about the real estate cycle that has matured to an equilibrium level, core real estate investment strategies are garnering more attention from pension funds. Although core investing cannot be defined precisely, the overwhelming characteristics relate to the predictability and stability of the income stream, and the liquidity...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Finding Consistent Alpha]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73493]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For several decades, U.S. pension plans have looked to the stock market to achieve high returns on their assets, and over time, this has been a winning strategy. However, the recent bear market has contributed significantly to a disconcerting shortfall in the funding of pension fund liabilities. There are several...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are U.S. and Foreign Equities Separate Asset Classes?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73494]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, plan sponsors have watched correlations between the U.S. and international stock markets soar well above historical levels. The question it tries to address is if one is not getting the intended diversification, should he curtail foreign-equities exposure? In terms of risk, the long-standing presumption has been that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fixed-Income Investments : Where Do We Go From Here?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73912]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the low interest rate environment, fixed-income investors have been challenged to find attractive total return opportunities as capital appreciation attributable to interest rate declines may be a less significant component of the equation going forward. In other words, in an environment where the complexity and opacity of fixed-income investments...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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