Pension Fund Investment
Management, 2nd Edition
Frank J. Fabozzi
Every investment professional
involved with the management of pension funds will embrace this wide-ranging handbook.
Consisting of articles by an esteemed panel of contributors, it covers the basics as well
as the latest on pension fund governance, operations, and value creation.
SECTION I: INVESTMENT POLICY,
STRATEGIES, AND ASSET ALLOCATION.
1. Pension Fund Governance,
Operations, and Value Creation (K. Ambachtsheer).
2. Investment Policy: The
Missing Link (J. Bailey).
Appendix: Illustration of an
Investment Policy (M. Menssen).
3. Organizing Internal
Investment Management (G. Allen and T. Coggin).
4. Managing the Asset Mix:
Decisions and Consequences (R. Arnott).
5. The Evolving Role of the
Pension Investment Consultant (H. Marmer).
6. Investment Styles, Stock
Market Cycles, Investor Expectations, and Pension Fund Performance (W. Bauman and R.
Miller).
7. Strategic Currency
Management for U.S. Pension Funds (J. Braccia).
8. The Role of Completion
Funds in Equity Style Management (C. Campisano and M. Nederlof).
9. Computer-Aided Pension
Investment Decision Making (R. Surz).
10. A Plan Sponsor's Guide to
Commissions (A. Biller).
SECTION II: BENCHMARK
SELECTION.
11. Benchmark Portfolios: The
Sponsor's View (D. Peifer).
12. Return-Based Style
Analysis (S. Hardy).
13. Equity Style Benchmarks
for Fund Analysis (M. Compton).
SECTION III: ASSET/LIABILITY
MANAGMENT.
14. Pension Liabilities: The
True Objective (R. Ryan).
15. A Practical Approach to
Integrating Pension Finance with Corporate Finance (M. Sloan).
16. Measures of Risk for
Portfolio Optimization and Asset/Liability Modeling (T. Philips).
SECTION IV: MANAGER SELECTION
AND COMPENSATION.
17. Managing Firmwide Risk
for Pension Funds (L. Gibson III).
18. Money Manager Selection:
A Top-Down Approach (V. Kutler).
19. Selecting an
International Investment Manager (M. Gorodess).
20. Establishing
Performance-Related Termination Thresholds for Investment Management (D. Hammond).
305 pages