Oct
09
2011

Nature of Liabilities

The nature of an institutional investor’s liabilities will dictate the general investment strategy to pursue. Depository institutions, for example, seek to generate income by the spread between the return that they earn on their assets and the cost of their funds. Life insurance companies are in the spread business. Pension funds are not in the [...]

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Oct
01
2011

Institutional Investors

Managers of the funds of financial entities manage those funds to meet specified investment objectives. For many institutional investors (insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies, depository institutions, and endowments and foundations), those objectives are dictated by the nature of their liabilities. It is within the context of the asset/liability problem faced by managers of institutional [...]

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