Andrew Irving (IFS Managing Director and General Counsel) served as the moderator of a panel discussion entitled, “Securities Lending: Learning from the Economic Crisis to Obtain Better Results” at the 2nd Annual Conference on Evolving Fiduciary Obligations of Pension Plans sponsored by Institutional Investor magazine and the Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer Check LLP law firm in Washington, D.C.
IFS recently completed its “Report on State Performance Consultants and Evaluation of Investment Policies” for the Alaska Retirement Management Board (“ARMB”). ARMB is required by Alaska Statute 37.10.220(a)(11) to contract for an independent audit of the state’s performance consultant not less than once every four years and to obtain an external performance review to evaluate the investment policies of each fund entrusted to the Board and report the results to the appropriate fund fiduciary.
In its January 2011 edition of Benefits Magazine, the IFEBP published "A Contemporary View of Portfolio Risk and Diversification" authored by Edward Patchett, CFA and Jonathan Horgan, CFA, CAIA. In the article, Messrs.
aiCIO Magazine Exclusive: That Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City is attempting to renegotiate public sector benefits is well known. That he is also trying to overhaul the management of the pension’s existing capital is less well covered. An aiCIO Magazine exclusive look at how one of America’s most prominent citizens is tackling one of its most difficult problems.
