Northwestern Endowment Considers ESG Investment Committee
The $9.7 billion fund faces growing student pressure regarding its investment policies.
News Archive: Apr - 2015
Larry Fink: We Are Poisoned with Short-Termism
BlackRock’s CEO warns of today’s “gambling culture” and the dangerous need for instant gratification.
Ex-JPM Transitions Chief Joins New Market Entrant
Is transition management coming back to life? Cantor Fitzgerald joins the market.
How Attractive Are Your Managers?
Research suggests it’s not such a good idea to hire “model” fund managers.
PIMCO: A Two-Style Approach to Outperformance
Combining carry and trend strategies could lead to high risk-adjusted returns in both falling and rising interest rate environments.
Former AIMCo CEO Finds New Role
Leo de Bever and top academics will advise a large sovereign wealth fund on increasing its property and unlisted real assets limits.
NYC Comptroller Vows to Shake Up Wall St ‘Status Quo’
The city’s five pension funds will change their “heads or tails, Wall Street wins” approach to investing, according to the comptroller.
San Diego County Appoints Interim CEO as CIO Search Pushes On
The former chief of the city’s pension has taken on the role to manage the county’s public sector fund.
UN Pension CEO Rebuffs Fraud Allegations
Sergio Arvizú has called staff and union heads’ accusations baseless, slanderous, and a “smear campaign.”
What Commodity Crash? SWFs Surge, Add Real Assets
Despite oil price falls, the majority of sovereign funds' assets have grown in the past 18 months.
Euro Weakness Hits PE Returns
A leading private equity index recorded its first quarterly loss in two years in Q3 2014.
IMF Calls for Fund Manager Stress Tests
“Weak” supervision of asset managers needs to be addressed, particularly regarding liquidity, the IMF has argued.
Swedish Public Funds Drop Stocks over Ethics Concerns
The AP funds’ Ethics Council has given up asking three companies to change.
Asset Manager M&A Values Surge
M&A deals are likely to be focused in hedge funds and ETFs in 2015, PricewaterhouseCoopers has said.
SEC Loses Top Private Equity Investigator
The SEC’s compliance chief has announced his return to the private sector one year after the agency began its probe of private equity and hedge funds.