Britt Harris, the chief investment officer of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, is taking part in the exclusive Bilderberg Meetings, an historically secretive conference that has encountered scrutiny and backlash for allegedly aggregating only the rich and powerful.
In the latest sign that private equity investing is flourishing, a public pension in Oregon made a further commitment to an Asian private equity fund operated by KKR.
Investors have already pulled out of developed and emerging market equities, and now they are moving out of the lower tranches of fixed income – how much further is there to go?
CIO Profile: Dhvani Shah, Chief Investment Officer at the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, speaks with aiCIO about how the scheme's well-funded position allows it to harness its investing power.
AQR Capital Management has presented its first annual AQR Insight Award to Bryan Kelly, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Seth Pruitt, Ph.D., of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for their unpublished research in predicting market returns more accurately over one-month and one-year time horizons.
The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System has approved the hiring of State Street Global Markets, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Citi Group, and Loop Capitol to handle transition management services.
The International Monetary Fund agreed that Quantitative Easing is working in the UK, but there could be another way for the economy to be supported without pensions feeling the pain?