The fund's objectives, typically, are those of (a) maximizing risk adjusted returns, (b) security of capital and (c) liquidity, and their respective attitudes to risk.

The fee structure in this overall arrangement is such that the people running the private equity fund want to have as much debt as possible this will increase the way upside returns are calculated, which in turn is the main driver of the compensation that the controlling general partners can receive. More debt, of course, also means more risk but this is not a sector focused primarily on risk adjusted returns.

When things go well, executives in these firms get the upside mostly in terms of immediate compensation, because few executives are compensated on the basis of risk adjusted returns. That means that when the risks materialize and the firms suffer losses, the costs fall on taxpayers.

Still others worry about the fact that SWF s are state owned what would happen to corporate governance when investors may have objectives other than maximizing risk adjusted returns? Similarly, there are concerns about transparency many SWF s do not reveal their investment strategies and how they operate.

Clearly specified fiduciary responsibilities and governance would help to ensure that publicly held assets were managed to maximize long term risk adjusted returns, with the state and citizens as beneficiaries and the market as the arbiter of efficiency and innovation. The best managed state owned enterprises could emerge or remain as successful and prominent players, adapting to expanded market competition and combining innovation with economies of scale.

NEW HAVEN In their new book The Incredible Shrinking Alpha, Larry E. Swedroe and Andrew L. Berkin describe an investment environment populated by increasingly sophisticated analysts who rely on big data, powerful computers, and scholarly research. With all this competition, the hurdles to achieving alpha returns above a risk adjusted benchmark and thus a measure of success in picking individual investments are getting higher and higher.

For a pension fund, the choice of strategic asset allocation is the most important factor in determining both expected returns and risk, typically contributing 85 per cent or more of returns (an index tracking implementation raises this to nearly 100 per cent).

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The relatively low interest rates on both short term and long term bonds are now causing both individual investors and institutional fund managers to assume duration risk and credit quality risk in the hope of achieving higher returns. That was the same risk strategy that preceded the financial crisis in 2008.

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Privatization advocates insist, however, that investments in stocks would yield sufficiently higher returns to provide individuals the same retirement income as before, with the surplus used to fill the gap. But if markets are working well, then returns will be higher only because risk is higher.

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GDP risk is a long term risk. The price of the insurance would have to be adjusted regularly to adjust for varying public knowledge of the likelihood of a recession, and people could not be allowed to cancel their policies, and stop making payments, whenever the economic outlook became rosier.

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Bolder pensioners, desperate to generate higher returns, may take undue risks for example, investing in junk bonds that could jeopardize their nest eggs. And, unfortunately, such financial risk taking may have little impact in terms of spurring corporations to assume more risk by investing.

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While the Provisional Institutions have made progress in support of technical preparations for returns and returns to municipalities, and remain the leading funder of returns, efforts to revitalize the returns process have been lacking.

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