The management of social insurance and pension funds is critical to the sustainability of the scheme they support. Efficient asset management of pension funds is so significant due to fiscal and financing pressures in the short term and increasing demographic challenges in the longer term. Given this reality, the management of such funds requires an increasing focus on governance, performance, the treatment of risk and linkages to actuarial projections.

Stagnant stock market and changes in the interest rates are having a dramatic impact on pension fund performance and their ability to fund future liabilities. To ensure sufficient resources are available for existing and future retirees involve a complex set of decisions and assumptions on asset returns, interest rates, inflation rates and future salary growth.

Since inflation is potentially expected to rise in many economies, pension funds are increasingly searching to invest across different asset classes including real estate to hedge against the threat of rising prices.

This training course focuses on pension fund investment philosophy, style, asset allocation, and performance of their portfolios. It aims to address many of the current pension issues from both the asset and liability perspectives to give you a holistic appreciation of the complex issues involved.