Pension Funds Still Waiting for Big Payoff?

Please read my latest and post your comments here:

http://pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2010/04/pension-funds-still-waiting-for-big.html

Thank you,

Leo Kolivakis

Comments

[swamp]

These private equity funds are a devil's playground. The underground deals must be as staggering as the hundreds of millions in fees. They don't sound realistic about the future either. And what's with the interviewer on the left, in the video, talking commerical real estate, whose definition is that commerical real estate is retail space only. It's implied in his unconscious comments. 

[Rick64]

Additional research by Ludovic Phalippou of the University of Amsterdam and Mr. Gottschalg of the HEC School of Management shows that private equity funds underperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index by 3 percent annually from 1980 to 2003, after accounting for fees.

 Leo

How did they do from 2004-2007?

Also why don't pension funds put their own inhouse investment team together and do away with the large fees? They could create jobs and more revenue with the right people while closely monitoring their investments. I am not educated on pensions so these questions might seem naive to you.

[the grateful un...]

of course these funds have gotten into investment vehicles where they really have no have business. sometimes i wonder if there might be two U.S. dollars someday, one would be a hard currency, a sweat dollar, the dollar that is spent and reused, and the other would be a speculative, or investment, or notational dollar. then we could price one dollar against the other to get a fair idea of what the economy was really doing. if one sweat dollar equals ten marginal investment dollars, you could convert them at the rate of exchange.if an employer makes an equal contribution to the pension fund, that would be at the rate of exchange. just a fantasy of mine, but valuing sweat dollars properly in the market would go a long way to restoring the American worker..