For the year ended Sept. 30, the 1,000 largest U.S. retirement plan sponsors saw their combined defined benefit and defined contribution assets increase 7.6% to a record $16.33 trillion, according to ...

Garvan McCarthy is taking on the newly created role of global alternatives chief investment officer at Mercer, according to an April 8 news release, as the investment consultant leans into expanding ...

The Bank of England launched a stress test for 46 firms including Apollo, Blackstone and BlackRock to assess how private markets would perform in a severe recession.

Corporate bond spreads are hovering near historic lows, leaving defined contribution participants — especially those nearing ...

In a letter to investors, Robert Koenigsberger says the answer to portfolio fragility is not adjusting stock-bond allocations, but moving into return streams “insensitive to public market risk factors ...

Blackstone launched a new platform, SablePointe Credit Strategies, to focus on supporting origination, underwriting and ...

The hedge fund revival for asset owners continues as Kern County Employees' Retirement Association has increased its target ...

Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System hired BNY Investments for a $25 billion passive public equity mandate ...

Insurance companies risk inadvertent concentration in AI-related assets as the technology boom spreads across utilities, data ...

Automatic enrollment, higher participation rates, strong deferral rates and participant-friendly rules are among the factors enabling DC plan participants to stay on track with their retirement goals ...

Alaska Permanent Fund is cutting allocations to private equity, real estate and private credit as valuations return to 2021 levels that prompted Chief Investment Officer Marcus Frampton to warn ...

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. reiterated its stance that it doesn’t cover pension benefits once transferred to an insurer if that insurer fails.