Research Insights
Benchmarking the Performance of Private Equity Portfolios of the World’s Largest Institutional Investors: A View from CEM
This original CEM research was published in the December 2020 edition of the Journal of Investing. To get a copy of the article’s reprint, please email...
Optimizing customer experience
All pension plans focus on the ‘customer experience’ to a greater or lesser extent. That said, for several leading global plans customer experience has become...
Market Efficiency: Value added by Large Cap. and Small Cap. U.S. Equity Portfolios
In a theoretically ideal market in which participants have equal access and understanding of information, efficiency should occur. In this environment,...
Asset Allocation, Cost of Investing and Performance of European DB Pension Funds: The Impact of Real Estate
Real estate is a significant element in the portfolios of large European institutional investors, with allocations making up as much as 10 percent of the...
Transaction Costs Amongst Large Asset Owners
Institutional asset owners across the world, encouraged by regulators, are increasingly interested in ‘hidden’ transaction costs – costs incurred in trading...
Hedge Fund Reality Check 2018
Pension funds need investment strategies with attractive risk and return characteristics to fund their liabilities. Hedge funds are increasingly popular...
