Chief Investment Officer

“In general, one might expect that the size of CalPERS’ portfolio will make it harder to generate excess returns in almost any asset class as they are actually moving markets,” MPI President Jeff Schwartz tells CIO’s Randy Diamond in his article about the system’s active investment risk-taking review. “As such, they really need to pick their battles when it comes to identifying areas to pursue excess returns, especially on a risk-adjusted basis, given that less-efficient market segments tend to hold more risks.” Read full article here.

“Brown and Cornell bucked their historical trends by outperforming Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. Over the past 11 fiscal years, either Brown, Cornell, or both were among the bottom two performers among Ivy League endowments.” This CIO article features interview with MPI’s Sean Ryan and discusses our 2017 Ivy Endowment returns analysis report.

Chief Investment Officer finds that risk parity strategies were hit hard by the fallout from the UK’s referendum on European Union membership, data show—and they could be caught off guard again.

Chief Investment Officer associate editor Sage Um utilizes MPI research on the relationship between scale, selection and impact of pensions’ allocations to hedge funds on portfolio risk and return profiles to ask if CalPERS would have been better off with a significantly greater allocation to its ARS program. Um notes MPI commentary on fee structure challenges and necessary evolution to better align interests and drive successful investment outcomes.