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Pensions & Investments: Investors Getting Better Ways to Gauge Risk-Parity Success

The investment industry is slowly catching up with investors' need for more accurate benchmarking of risk-parity strategies.

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International Business Times: Emerging Markets Have Left Pain Behind, Positioned To Outperform: NEPC

Emerging markets, particularly China, offer an attractive medium-to-long term investment opportunity across all asset classes, Tim McCusker, the chief investment officer at NEPC, told International Business Times.

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The New York Times: How to Avoid the Next Real Estate Downturn

Frans and Caroline Swaalf, management consultants in the Netherlands, have been enamored of South Florida since they were graduate students at the University of Miami in the 1990s.

When the housing crisis hit in 2007, they thought their time to buy had come. They bought a condo in the Fontainebleau, a resort in Miami Beach, in 2010, after prices had bottomed out, paying 60 percent less than it had sold for two years earlier. The condo has since doubled in value.

The Swaalfs began investing in other properties. In 2011, they bought a small condo in an Art Deco building and doubled their money when they sold it six years later. They put that money into a larger condo in Miami that overlooked the water, and then looked for a buyer. But Mr. Swaalf expects to make only 5 to 10 percent when the sale closes.

That was a signal to the couple that the market was slowing and that it was time to put their investment gains elsewhere. Prices in the Miami area have cooled since September, according to Trulia, a real estate search engine.

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Pensions & Investments: Sponsors See Proposals as Low-Priority Item

When defined contribution sponsors contemplate lifetime income solutions, their actions — or more likely, inactions — resemble the ERISA version of the film "Groundhog Day."

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Pensions & Investments: Risk-Parity Investors do a bit of Second-Guessing

A cadre of asset owners are suffering from a crisis of confidence in their risk-parity investments.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: How Stock Volatility Could Take a Swipe at Charitable Giving and Grant Making

The stock market's stomach pains have continued into the new year, raising fresh concerns about whether the volatility is a sign of serious economic troubles ahead that could affect fundraising, grant making, endowments, and more.

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The NonProfit Times: Endowment Managers Don't Expect Much In 2019

More than 50 percent of endowment and foundation managers are bullish on private equity (PE) investments while the vast majority of those surveyed expect domestic equities to be relatively flat or will taper off this year, returning single digits.

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Private Equity Wire: Endowments and Foundations bullish on private equity in 2019, says new NEPC survey

Investors plan to stay the course with private equity, despite expectations for flat or negative returns from public equity in the US.

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Capital Allocators: Consistency and Creativity at NEPC

Tim McCusker is the Chief Investment Officer at NEPC, an investment consultant that advises on $1 trillion in assets on behalf of 400 institutional clients.  Tim oversees NEPC's 50-person investment research team and leads investment strategy for the firm.  In each of 2014, 2015, and 2016, he was recognized by CIO magazine as one of the world's most influential consultants.

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Pension & Investments: NEPC: Endowments, foundations bullish on private equity for next year or two

Slightly more than half of endowments and foundations are bullish on private equity for the next 12 to 24 months, according to a year-end survey from investment consultant NEPC.

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