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Asset Allocation Practices in the Public Sector: A Primer for Finance Officers.
This article focuses on the key decision affecting the investment performance of public-sector pensions--asset allocation. It reviews some fundamental concepts, examines how pension plans arrive at their allocation decisions, and then examines the historical shift toward equities.
The investment of retirement assets is a complex business requiring individual and institutional investors to make a host of decisions to plan and execute an investment program. Despite the complexities, the ultimate success or failure rests to a surprising degree on just one decision: the asset allocation decision. This article examines the importance of the asset allocation decision, ...
- Real-estate funds in your portfolio: high returns and low correlation to other...
- Magazine article from: Research Norton, Chip May 1, 2002 700+ words
...Correlation Play Real-estate funds have found few takers in asset allocation over the years...to choose from, real estate funds often sli...cracks. But the asset-allocation benefit of real-estate funds is tremendous...
- Building Wealth: On the Book Shelves.(retirement planning methods)(managing...
- Magazine article from: Accounting Technology July 1, 2007 700+ words
...concepts as compounding, asset allocation, and dollar cost averaging...a program for cyclical asset allocation versus traditional asset allocation in Cocktail Economics...Boom or Bust Profiting in real estate Whatever the national...
- Asset Allocation and the Performance of Real Estate Mutual Funds.(Statistical...
- Magazine article from: Real Estate Economics Gallo, John G. Lockwood, Larry J. Rutherford, Ronald C. March 22, 2000 700+ words
...importance of asset allocation for real e state...The benefits of real estate investments are...complicated because the real estate market consists...both to active asset allocation (across property...Additionally, real estate funds are allowed...
- YOUR MONEY; Real estate parcel can skew couple's asset allocation.(BUSINESS)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Farrell, Chris September 27, 2009 700+ words
...estate. The real estate percentage...briefly define asset allocation and say why...essence of asset allocation is the inevitable...cash and real estate, although...fundamentals of asset allocation is diversification...
- Fee-Only Planners Warn Stock-Weary Investors of 'Double Whammy' When Dumping...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 5, 2003 700+ words
...buying into the top of a real estate "bubble" prior to...overconcentrate in real estate that we're seeing...without an effective asset allocation strategy in place...term strategy see the real estate market as a portion...
- Portfolio: Asset Allocation - Asia-Pacific - Fiduciary spurns Aussie...
- Magazine article from: Financial Times Mandate April 21, 2003 700+ words
...known as the Fiduciary International Real Estate Fund. The first three investors amount...countries and types of properties." Under real estate chief Jack Foster, Fiduciary will invest...cent to 5 per cent above expected local real estate returns. Such returns - comparable...
- Asset allocation: International equities up, fixed income down in '04; Survey...
- Magazine article from: Pensions & Investments Feinberg, Phyllis January 24, 2005 700+ words
...with Greenwich. But hedge funds, private equity and equity real estate stole the limelight when fund executives predicted in which...funds; 31% listed private equity; and 23% listed equity real estate. When asked to predict significant decreased allocations...
- CalPERS Adopts Changes to Asset Allocation Mix.
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 13, 2004 700+ words
...costs. The revised asset allocation mix calls for a...private equity and real estate programs. The slight...the success of our real estate and private equity...shift its target asset allocation for real estate from 9 to 8 percent...
