Newsmakers
August 24, 2015
James Perry, currently assistant CIO for the Texas Tech’s endowment, has been tapped to lead the deeply underfunded pension plan.
Asset Allocation
August 24, 2015
The country’s authorities want its public pension to help support its ailing stock market.
Newsmakers
August 24, 2015
Norges Bank is looking for “high achievers” to work alongside Norway’s wealth fund.
Asset Allocation
August 24, 2015
Academics have found investors—in fear of fire sales—migrate from stocks owned by asset managing giants, resulting in negative returns and low liquidity.
Asset Allocation
August 21, 2015
A New York Times op-ed and writer Malcolm Gladwell have called out Yale for spending too much on managers, and not enough on students.
Newsmakers
August 21, 2015
Kerim Kaskal will leave at the end of October to establish his own asset management firm.
Asset Allocation
August 20, 2015
Menlo Park, California’s Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates topped the list of venture capital firms, with each raising more than $10 billion over the last decade.
Manager Selection
August 20, 2015
Even with extremely conservative projections, the data firm sees Apollo as solid with sticky investors despite its weak stock price.
Newsmakers
August 20, 2015
Joel Mandelbaum, formerly of Wall Street Systems, has been named CEO and President.
Newsmakers
August 20, 2015
A September increase in US interest rates is looking too early for some.
Risk
August 20, 2015
In a market dominated by one insurer, Lincoln Electric made a rare choice in purchasing annuities from Principal Financial.
Manager Selection
August 20, 2015
Asset owners may be paying upwards of 20% of their private equity profits in carried interest—but not always for outperforming funds.
Newsmakers
August 19, 2015
The investment office has added eight new hires over the past two years, including a CIO.
Asset Allocation
August 19, 2015
China and emerging markets fall out of favour among asset allocators following a turbulent few months in equity markets.
Regulation
August 18, 2015
The bank hired several interns who didn’t meet its GPA or interview standards, but were related to Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund officials, the SEC alleged.