Norway SWF to Double Equities Team
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is staffing up to chase returns.
Newsmakers
Profile: Zurich’s Alts Chief on Gilts, Green Bonds, and Credit
Urban Angehrn, head of alternative investments at the Zurich Insurance Group, has detailed his views on getting the most from his $200 billion fixed income-dominated portfolio.
Legal & General Buys TDF Provider for US Push
The UK fund management giant is building up its presence across the Atlantic.
Fort Worth Employees’ Retirement Fund Appoints New CIO
Joelle Mevi
of New Mexico will move to Texas to manage the $2 billion pension fund.
PIMCO Explains New Deputy-CIO Structure—and Its Bond Optimism
Founder Bill
Gross writes of a new and improved PIMCO and a positive outlook for 2014’s bond
market.
Rothesay Life Acquires MetLife’s UK Bulk Annuity Arm
Goldman Sachs’ risk-transfer provider is buying up the competition.
‘Radical Change’ to Hit Fund Manager Research Market
Large asset managers could be funding smaller firms’ research, and the UK’s investment management organisation thinks this isn’t fair.
$100B South Africa Pension Appoints Investment Head
A member of aiCIO’s Forty under Forty has joined one of Africa’s largest investors.
Harvard Loses Private Equity Chief to Fidelity Family Office
Ice hockey star Lane MacDonald is leaving his alma mater.
CPPIB Hires PE Infrastructure CIO for London Office
Cressida Hogg, a managing partner of UK
private equity firm 3i’s infrastructure business, will join the $193 billion
fund’s infrastructure team at the end of March.
Hess Up, Ford In as Towers Shifts Investment Chiefs
Chris Ford, one of aiCIO’s Knowledge Brokers, takes the investment helm at Towers Watson.
PwC: Asset Management to Surpass $100 Trillion by 2020
The industry's AUM is projected to nearly double, with North America still dominating at $49 trillion.
Top Bank Strategist Joins Danish Pension
The growing Industriens Pension has secured the services of one of the region’s top analysts.
Korea’s $400B Pension Looks to Hire to Foreign Investment Staff
The fund, which has satellite offices in New York and London, plans to double its investment team.
Federated Builds Out Active Equity Team
The fund manager is looking to do for equities products what liability-driven investing did for fixed income.