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December 8, 2020
In Focus: Why Venture Capital Is Doing So Well

With stocks and bonds offering meager futures, pension plans and other investors find under-appreciated VC beats another alt, private equity, which grabs all the attention.

In Focus: Why Venture Capital Is Doing So Well
CalSTRS Pressures Exxon to Be More Climate-Friendly, Backing Outside Directors Slate

The nation’s second-largest pension fund joins an activist investor in proxy push to elect four board members.

CalSTRS Pressures Exxon to Be More Climate-Friendly, Backing Outside Directors Slate
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Cedars-Sinai Appoints CIO for $8B Portfolio
SEC Seeks Final Judgment Against Former Western Asset Management Exec Ken Leech
CPP Investments Partners With AT&T, GIP on Fiber Joint Venture
Barings Appoints Asset-Based Finance Head
Octagon Credit Investors Names Investor Relations Head
San Diego Seeks CIO
SPONSORED BY Wellington Management
Top of Mind: Time for a New Playbook on Inflation and Active Management?

Multi-Asset Strategist Adam Berger considers the outlook for inflation, the changing environment for active management, and potential portfolio next steps.

SEC Charges Firm for Targeting Haitian-Americans in Alleged Fraud

The CEO told investors their money would help fund agriculture, renewable energy, and ecommerce projects in Haiti.

SEC Charges Firm for Targeting Haitian-Americans in Alleged Fraud
SPONSORED BY Segall Bryant & Hamill
The Acceleration of ESG in the COVID-19 Era

ESG investing is poised to become even more critical moving forward as the COVID-19 pandemic has yielded wide-ranging political, regulatory, economic, and social effects across the globe.

US Public Pensions’ Funded Ratio Declines More Than 2% in 2020

Despite funded levels falling to 70.7%, the 100 largest public plans have ‘shown great resiliency’ in the face of the pandemic.

US Public Pensions’ Funded Ratio Declines More Than 2% in 2020
In Focus: One Upside to the Pandemic: Better Financial Technology

As with medicine, the development of better tools to analyze economic and market data got fast-forwarded.

In Focus: One Upside to the Pandemic: Better Financial Technology
Editorial: CIOeditors@issmediasolutions.com
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