Slide 4-1 Mutual funds and the Institutional environment Chapter 4: overview of institutional investing and institutions’ role in portfolio selection and management A. Institutional investors B. Mutual funds / ETFs / Segregated funds C. Pension Funds
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Mutual funds and the Institutional environment
Chapter 4: overview of institutional investing and institutions’ role in portfolio selection and management
A. Institutional InvestorsPension fundsEndowment fundsFinancial institutions, e.g., banks and
insurance companiesLarge portfolio managers
Mutual Funds, hedge Funds … etc.
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Constraints in Portfolio Management
LiquidityInvestment horizonLimits on country holdingsLimits on sector holdingsLimits on individual firm holdingsLimits on trading strategiesRegulatory constraints ESG
Open-End vs. Closed-End FundsShares OutstandingClosed-end
no change unless new shares are offeredTraded on stock exchanges or OTC
Open-endchanges when new shares are sold or old shares are
redeemed
PricingOpen-end: net asset value (NAV)Closed-end: premium or discount to NAV
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Costs of Investing in Mutual Funds
Sales chargesFront-end load (%, pay when purchase)Back-end load (%, pay when redeem)
Typically declines with the holding periodNo load (early redemption fee may be charged)
Operating expensesManagement expense ratio (MER)Expressed as a percentage of total assets
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Exchange-Traded FundsSince 1993ETFs, iShares, iUnitsPassive versus active investingCompare MER with that of index fundsBroad index as well as specialized ETFs: Fixed income,
ETFsClear Indexes LLC runs a student competition: Create the
next ETF2007 winner: US Exporters Index ETF
ETFs are different from closed-end mutual funds There is always an underlying index# of shares outstanding changes daily (ETF manager issues
and redeems shares to keep the ETF in line with the underlying index)
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Segregated Funds An insurance contract that provides investment
management (mutual fund) plus protection
Offered by insurance companies, but “segregated” from the other assets of the insurance company
Some have in-house fund management, e.g., TransAmerica Life
May also wrap an insurance policy around an existing mutual fund, e.g., Great-West life policy around MacKenzie Financial funds
MERs e.g., MacKenzie Financial: 2.7 - 2.9%
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Main Differences 3 main differences from mutual funds
1. Bankruptcy protection (governed by the Insurance Act) Fund shielded from creditors in case of personal
bankruptcy
2. Protection of principal if held for 10 yrs + 75% by law, but new generation 100%
3. Death benefit Within 10 years, beneficiary receives the greater of
principal or market value
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Pension PlansTwo major types of pension plan
DBDC (In the U.S., 401(k) plans)Hybrid
Who bears the risk in each type?
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Pension Funds as Institutional InvestorsInvestment of pension assetsAll bonds (to “match” liabilities)Stocks and bonds (traditional: 60%, 40%)Stocks and bonds + alternative assets
A pioneer: British Rail Pension Plan in the 70s invested in a portfolio of art
More generally: real estate, infrastructure, private equity, 130/30, hedge funds
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Ontario Teachers’ Pension PlanIn 1990, the fund's $19 billion of assets were all in
Ontario government bonds $108 on December 31, 2007$87.4 on December 31, 2008278,000 plan membersManage some of its own assets
Active in derivatives/hedge fundsHas a private capital division with $16 billion in assets
Largest professional single pension plan in Canada
Norwegian Government Pension Fund does not invest in:Walmart (human rights issues)Boeing, Honeywell International (nuclear weapons)Freeport McMoRan Cooper and Gold
(environmental damages)
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Responsible Investing PolicyMcLean Budden’s non-financial screen for their “Select”
family of fundsExclude companies with more than 10% of their gross
annual revenue from the sale of tobacco, alcohol, gambling facilities, pornography, and armaments.
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CPPIB“ CPPIB has committed to build an engagement capability and
use its ownership positions in companies to encourage improved performance in and disclosure of environmental, social, and governance factors ”
Example of “engagement activity”: Burma. In discussion with Senior Execs at Ivanhoe mines
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Both CPPIB and OTPP
Investment belief: Artificial constraints decrease returns and/or increase risk over time
Hence, they do not screen stocks based on non-financial criteria alone
Believe that engagement is a more effective approach
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Global perspective on sizeLargest funds in Canada
CPPIBSeptember 30, 2008: CDN $117 billion
• Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec $120 billion (net)Largest in North America
CALPERS:November 30, 2008: US$180.9 billion
Largest in the worldJapan Government Pension Investment FundSeptember 2008: US$1.3 trillion