Newsmakers
Plan
sponsors must manage participants’ benefit expectations to contend with
diminishing financial resources, according to strategy firm EY.
Manager Selection
The deputy CIO of Kentucky Retirement Systems on why (and how) volatility cones can help asset owners separate manager skill from luck.
Manager Selection
Both firms have named former pension investment staff to leading retirement-focused positions.
Manager Selection
After more than a year of sluggish interest, some signs point to macro strategies regaining popularity.
Newsmakers
The
banking giant has reached a deal with two firms to sell 50% of One Equity
Partners as it continues “pruning” unnecessary divisions.
Newsmakers
Gambling
money has been flooding into Macau—and the IMF wants it managed properly.
Regulation
The founder of Bayou Hedge Fund Group—a $450 million fraud—has once again failed to give his felony sentence the slip.
Newsmakers
Shore,
who has served as the university’s finance chief for six years, is the latest
of a series of high-level financial officers to make their exits.
Newsmakers
Called “a
stalwart of the UK pensions industry,” Sally Bridgeland has been inducted into
a group that challenges the current investment landscape.
Newsmakers
The private consulting firm beat out 18 competitors to help manage Texas A&M’s $3.66 billion investment program.
Regulation
Anthony Blumberg “directed a culture of deception and greed” at the offshore broker-dealer, according to an SEC enforcer.
Risk
New and exotic factors are
less likely to earn excess returns or perform persistently, researchers have said.
Newsmakers
The
Malaysian government has said it would pay $437 million as part of a “holistic
restructuring plan” following the airline’s recent tragedies.
Newsmakers
The largest sovereign fund in Asia has bucked the international trend of bringing investment capability in house.
Regulation
The world’s largest owner of listed stocks appears to mean business on
corporate governance.