Asset Allocation January 25, 2022 Danish, Canadian Pensions Pump More Money Into Renewables ATP is investing in what will be the EU’s largest geothermal plant, as CDPQ raises its stake in Énergir owner Trencap.
Risk January 24, 2022 Jeremy Grantham: How to Live in an About-to-Burst ‘Super Bubble’ The noted seer has some refuge investment ideas. Hint: not US stocks.
Asset Allocation January 24, 2022 British Pension to Shift $6.7 Billion Away from Polluters USS is the largest private pension fund in the UK.
Regulation January 24, 2022 SEC Charges Adviser With Fraudulently Operating Private Fund Anthony Cottone allegedly raised nearly $3 million using false and misleading representations, and misappropriated funds.
Asset Allocation January 21, 2022 Broken Homes: Trouble Stirs in Booming Housing Sector Affordability questions and rising rates chill once-hot builder stocks.
Newsmakers January 21, 2022 PSERS Delays Turning Over Investigation Results Board members were warned that the results of the report could be damaging to their reputations, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Newsmakers January 21, 2022 PBGC Bails Out Struggling NY Pension With $112.6 Million in Aid The Local 138 Pension Plan becomes the first multiemployer plan to receive funds under the American Rescue Plan Act.
Risk January 20, 2022 Stocks Rise for a Change: Is It Real? The turnaround from January’s downdraft comes in spite of rising interest rates, a powerful depressant.
Newsmakers January 20, 2022 CalPERS Board President Henry Jones Resigns, Theresa Taylor Elected as New President The new board president is ‘really big on ESG,’ according to an ex-board member.
Manager Selection January 20, 2022 North Dakota State Investment Board Names Scott Anderson CIO He replaces David Hunter, who left the retirement system to join a private investment firm.
Risk January 20, 2022 What If Earnings Season Turns Out to Be a Bust? Ned Davis thinks profit growth will come in way south of what the market expects.
Newsmakers January 19, 2022 CalPERS’ Project to Measure ESG in Private Equity Has 100 Organizations, $8 Trillion Participating Environmental, social, and governance investing is notoriously difficult to measure in a private equity context.
Newsmakers January 19, 2022 ESG Activist Larry Fink Takes Heat From Right and Left The BlackRock CEO is either too radical or too namby-pamby, critics say.
Regulation January 19, 2022 Supreme Court Declines to Hear Delphi Pension Termination Case The lack of action by the high court ends more than 12 years of litigation after the General Motors unit’s pension plan was terminated.
Risk January 18, 2022 Inflation’s Progeny: Another Rotten Day on Wall Street Stock and bond prices slump, with the 10-year Treasury yield rising to 1.85%.