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Fund Performance
is Just the Beginning
Many treasury professionals sit on
their employer's 401(k) Retirement
Plan Committee and share the
responsibility of monitoring and
reviewing their plan's investments. As a member of
the Committee and a fiduciary, it is
also important for you to have a
disciplined understanding of your
advisor's due diligence and evaluation
process for recommending
investment funds for your retirement
plan.
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Strategies for Managing Short-Term Investments
Through Difficult Financial Times
As markets slowly improve, this may be a good time to explore short-term
investment options. To succeed, however, treasury professionals must act
with extreme diligence and understand the composition of their company's
portfolio.
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Re-evaluating Your Investment Portfolio
in the New Economic Reality
Government and nonprofit investors
have a fiduciary responsibility to
perform extensive due diligence on the
financial firms they invest with and the
types of investments they make. These
tasks become even more challenging
in a weakened economy.
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CFA Magazine: Point / Counterpoint
Is it possible for the large investment banks to balance the interests of their investment banking clients with those of their private wealth clients?
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How Providence Health Systems Manages its Investment Programme
This article gives a detailed description of the selection and monitoring procedures used by the Providence Health Systems to manage its multiple operating funds, pensions, restricted accounts and other pools of liquidity. The investment committees, money managers, and consultants all collaborate as one team at all stages of the investment process.
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Cash as a Strategic Asset
As investors take a more active approach to their short-term portfolios, they must balance the potential for enhanced returns against risk and liquidity considerations.
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Balance Sheet Asset Strategies Boost Returns
Treasurers are no longer simply meeting working capital needs, but completely rethinking their investment strategies to include more complex securities to enhance returns.
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'Five Reasons Not to Pay Management Fees' and Other Fables
Several organizations offer short-term portfolio management services "free" or "nearly free" of management fees. This article discusses some of the misconceptions and pitfalls of not having an independent and objective third party managing corporate assets. Essentially, there are no checks and balances when the person selecting the investments stands to earn commissions on the selection of those securities. So who is really watching?
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Using Mutual Funds as a Cash Management Tool
When selected and used wisely, mutual funds can be an effective investment alternative, offering diversification, professional management at low cost, and maximum liquidity. Money funds as well as specialized bond funds offer the potential for enhanced returns with optimal credit and sector diversification.
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The RFP Process for Investment Management Services
An effective RFP and a careful due diligence process will help treasury managers select the most suitable investment managers. Key elements to be evaluated include each candidate's historical investment performance in a risk/return framework, style consistency, risk controls, and turnover.
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Investment Management at Wind River Systems, Inc.
This article profiles how one company has managed to maximize investment returns within acceptable risk and volatility constraints established by senior management. Using a multi-portfolio structure, the company has developed creative solutions to complex problems that entail optimizing returns on a restrictive, portfolio collateralizing a synthetic lease.
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Managing the Asset Managers...A View from the Valley
Cisco Systems
This article discusses how the treasury professionals at Cisco Systems, with billions in balance sheet cash that continues to grow, oversee internally and externally managed assets.
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