A former investment officer at the San Diego County Employees' Retirement Association has sued the scheme over his termination as his proponents cite a pattern of hostility and retaliation toward so-called whistleblowers. The San Diego County Civil Service Commission, however, found SDCERA's actions were just.
Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, along with two private equity firms and a communications corporation, has agreed to purchase Canadian data center operator Q9 for C$1.1 billion.
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of Chicago Booth School of Business and Seth Pruitt, Ph.D., of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for their unpublished research in predicting market returns more accurately over one-month and one-year time horizons.
