Portfolio Management for Institutional Investors

Free CFA Level III: Portfolio Management lesson in Portfolio Construction. 27 min read, ~4,023 words.

DB pensions: funded status drives risk capacity. Endowments: real return must exceed spending rate plus costs to preserve purchasing power. Foundations: the 5% minimum distribution is a binding floor. Insurers: liability-driven, duration-matched, regulatory-capital-constrained. Banks: short-duration, credit-sensitive, Basel-constrained.

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