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The Impact of Service Models on Pension Administration Costs: A Global Perspective

The Impact of Service Models on Pension Administration Costs: A Global Perspective

by Alexander D. Beath, Chris Flynn, Edsart Heuberger, Product Manager, Pension Administration | May 14, 2025 | Research

The cost of administering benefits for large Defined Benefit (DB) pensions varies significantly worldwide, from under £14 per member in the U.K. to over $325 CAD in Canada. This whitepaper quantifies these cost differences, considering factors like currency,...
The Impact of Service Models on Pension Administration Costs: A Global Perspective

Market efficiency and value added by listed and unlisted U.S. institutional investor real estate portfolios

by Alexander D. Beath, Maaike van Bragt | May 18, 2024 | Research

CEM research shows that institutional investors of sufficient size tend to outperform the market over long periods of time. The ability to outperform benchmark returns stems partly from the structural advantages; investors with more scale, more actively managed...
The Impact of Service Models on Pension Administration Costs: A Global Perspective

Asset Allocation and Fund Performance of Defined Benefit Pension Funds in the United States, 1998-2020

by Alexander D. Beath | Dec 18, 2022 | Research

Of the $34.9 trillion of retirement assets in the United States at the end of 2019, approximately $7.1 trillion were held in public sector defined benefit (DB) funds and $3.4 trillion were held in corporate sector DB funds. This work was commissioned by Nareit®. The...
The Impact of Service Models on Pension Administration Costs: A Global Perspective

Value Added by Large Institutional Investors between 1992 – 2013

by Alexander D. Beath | Jan 8, 2015 | Research

Can large institutional investors beat the market and deliver added value above and beyond their benchmarks? We answer this question using a massive data set comprised of 6,666 samples drawn from a global set of defined benefit pension plans along with a handful of...
The Impact of Service Models on Pension Administration Costs: A Global Perspective

How Implementation Style and Costs Affect Private Equity Performance

by Alexander D. Beath, Chris Flynn, Rotman International Journal of Pension Management | Apr 8, 2014 | Research

This article describes a study that analyzed the private equity performance and costs of large pension funds. Using data from the CEM Benchmarking Inc. (CEM) database, we establish that implementation style affects net performance: internal management outperforms...
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