Institutional investors are spending 30 per cent of their time on tasks that do not add value to the investment process, including searching for documents on shared drives, and typing up handwritten notes from meetings.
A pension fund for Pennsylvania teachers said it had frozen new investments with Apollo Global Management amid concerns about ties between its founder, Leon Black, and Jeffrey Epstein.
Environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) investing has captured the attention (and dollars) of more institutional investors each year and continues to grow exponentially. However, how can an ESG investor be sure that the investments it is making truly align with the values those funds purport to prioritize?
A pension fund covering New York Teamsters overinvested in private equity and other risky assets in an attempt to chase an unreasonable rate of return set by the plan’s actuary, according to a proposed class action complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Defined benefit plan fiduciaries can expand on their evaluations of ESG investments to show they are financially beneficial and not just a philosophical choice.