May 09, 2011
"There is now a greater understanding on the part of institutional investors that asset allocation is the issue rather than stock picking.” The CIO of a pension fund in northern Europe concurred: “Strategic asset allocation has always been a more important driver of returns than the selection of asset managers that pursue outperformance vis-à-vis a market benchmark.”
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