Pension funds to boost investment, risk teams

Pension funds globally will move to expand their in-house investment and risk management capabilities this year, according to research due to be published this month. They will also be looking to private markets as a means of boosting investment performance so that they can better match returns to their payout liabilities. State Street’s 2015 Asset Owner Survey polled 400 defined-benefit (DB) pension funds globally, up from some 150 last year.  According to advance data seen by …