Newsmakers

Column: Thou Shalt Not Pass

From aiCIO's December Issue: Insurance companies long ago lost their relevance to asset owners. Now, astonishingly, they are relevant again.

Gross, Dalio, Gundlach…Minerd?

From aiCIO's December Issue: Is Guggenheim Partners' Scott Minerd set to enter the Pantheon of fixed-income investing greats?

Editor-in-Chief: Of Covers and Men

From aiCIO's December Issue: People like reading about people. Issues matter, organizations matter, but people--that's what everyone wants to read about, says Kip McDaniel.

Your Contract or Mine?

A paper out of Oxford and Stanford gives the pros and cons of London vs. offshore, and standard vs. custom when it comes to contracts.  

Why Private Equity 'Collusion' Is Not Always a Danger

Morten Sorensen, a finance professor at Columbia Business School, analyzes the implications of a class-action lawsuit, alleging that Blackstone, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), and Bain Capital Partners allegedly colluded to lower the prices of takeover targets--and what it all means for the private equity industry.

Making His Mark Across the Atlantic

Canadian central bank head Mark Carney is taking the top spot at the Bank of England. Institutional investors see it as a step in the right direction.