Watson Wyatt: Investment managers now dominate the “pension fund food chain”
Jul 21st, 2008 | Filed under: Investment Management FeesBack in January, consultancy Watson Wyatt released the high-level results of a study it co-authored with The Financial Times called “2020 Vision: Research on the Future Pension Landscape”. The study queried nearly 500 institutional investors from Europe and Asia on various issues.
According to the report (available here with free registration), respondents “expected the appetite for alpha to rise” and that “interest in extra-financial financial factors (such as sustainability)” were seen as increasing. We covered some of the other data in this AllAboutAlpha posting.
This month, Watson Wyatt completed the full report promised in the summary data above. It can also be downloaded here with free registration. This more lengthy narrative covers a lot of good issues, but a couple of observations really popped out at us.
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