Asset Allocation
May 13, 2014
The largest cash piles in two years signal investors are not quite prepared to go all in.
Newsmakers
May 13, 2014
The Ontario pension fund has brought aboard an 18-year industry veteran to its London team.
Asset Allocation
May 12, 2014
Russell
Investments has outlined tweaks and improvements to mainstream schemes, and given an industry outlook for the next 10 years.
Manager Selection
May 12, 2014
High fees
and employee turnovers of multi-manager hedge funds may overpower their benefits, Cambridge Associates has found.
Asset Allocation
May 12, 2014
This year could be the turning point for debt funds to raise more capital than equity.
Newsmakers
May 12, 2014
Connecticut has passed a bill paving the way for a public retirement system for private workers.
Asset Allocation
May 11, 2014
The $76.8
billion fund has cut its emerging market ETF exposure by more than $1 billion.
Newsmakers
May 8, 2014
From the vault: Wake Forest University’s Jim Dunn is bringing the school’s billion-dollar endowment back to basics. A 2010 cover story by Kip McDaniel.
Newsmakers
May 8, 2014
Verger Capital Management, a joint venture between the university and management team, will be a led by current CIO Jim Dunn.
Manager Selection
May 8, 2014
A move to bring investment capabilities in-house could mean managers miss out on growing assets.
Risk
May 8, 2014
Accounting errors under PricewaterhouseCoopers’ watch led the pension to vote against its contract renewal.
Newsmakers
May 7, 2014
The $18.7
billion endowment joined a dozen other universities by divesting from 100 public
coal-extracting companies.
Regulation
May 7, 2014
An
examination of private equity firms the last two years revealed an “enormous
grey area” of hidden fees and expense-shifting, costing investors proper
monitoring of investments.
Newsmakers
May 7, 2014
Hugh Cutler has moved from the passive investment giant to an asset-gathering hedge fund.
Risk
May 6, 2014
A survey of insurance CIOs revealed a growing
interest in private equity as an answer to a low-yield environment.