The market has been propped up recently by governmental stimulus (especially at the retail level), but it has been driven for years by some bigger institutional factors (eg, more and
more pension fund money chasing fewer and fewer opportunities).
Not exact matches
But a growing portion of the
money flowing into hedge
funds is coming from
pension funds, run by investors who are
more interested in consistent returns than outsized ones.
Since banks, mutual
funds, hedge
funds,
pension funds, and other institutions control
more than 50 % of the market's average daily volume, the direction of the stock market nearly always follows the institutional
money flow.
In other words, people have to pay either so much debt or they have to have forced saving, like
pension fund saving, that the economy is shrunk for financial reasons, for putting
more and
more of its
money out of the real economy of goods and services into the financial sector.
Glass Lewis customers collectively manage nearly $ 8 trillion and include
more than half of the top 15 mutual
fund families *,
more than half of the top 15 institutional
money managers * and
more than half of the top 15 public
pension funds.
He said the latest fad in
pension management land is to shift
money out hedge
funds — which are woefully underperforming the market — and to put even
more money into private equity
funds.
Every
pension fund under the sun in this country — because rates are so low — has monthly negative outflows of cash: beneficiaries are being paid
more money than is flowing into the
fund.
Older people want bigger
pensions and
more money spent on care, and they don't want to sell their homes to
fund them.
Generally
more than half the
money in New York's public -
pension funds is invested in stocks.
Anxious to earn their assumed returns of 7 to 8 percent a year,
pension funds across the country have been pushing
more money into alternatives instead of traditional stocks and bonds.
* States and districts haven't saved enough
money to properly
fund pensions, and now they owe $ 390 billion
more than they've set aside.
Significantly
more money from the state budget and a bigger portion of the pay of recently hired teachers» pay will go to the state teachers
pension fund to make up for projected lower investment earnings.
And as a result many
pension funds now carry billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities forcing them to allocate
more money to pay off their debts.
Pay attention to hidden
money: for example the one who works
more for
money might automatically get a
pension funded this way.
An even better source would be those who make investment decisions for the very large
pension funds, which have
more money invested than most mutual
funds.
I see that the «Continentale» guarantees 18 %
more pension but has 3 % less
money in the
funds because of higher fees.
Investing your
money and savings for your
pension in
funds that advertise themselves as
more «ethical» than others?
Third, I very much enjoy representing
pensions and foundations in connection with private
funds, because such clients believe in missions greater than self - enrichment — the investment activity is a means to a goal beyond just turning
money into
more money.
Pension Equity
fund has
more exposure on Equity and less of Debt or
Money market instruments.
However,
Pension Income
fund invests
more into Income and
money market instruments and lesser to debt instruments.
Pension funds working to push
more money into commercial real estate are expanding their investment parameters to include secondary markets, international
funds and even new development...
The counterparty investors will likely be simply
more private
money from private equity and not so much
pension or retirement
funds or any mutual
funds or alike.