Market Moves
Too Bad, Trump: Looks Like the Fed Won’t Lower Rates
Despite political pressure to reduce them, the central bank seems tilted toward eventual hikes.
News Archive: Apr - 2019
ESG Interests Are Increasing Among Family Offices
Environmental interests remain the key investment focus for organizations set up for the wealthy.
Newsmakers
Fund Managers Countersue Kentucky for ‘Wasteful’ Lawsuit
Blackstone and Prisma lawyer up to get their money back from ‘meritless’ case.
Newsmakers
New Zealand Super to Divest from Seven Gun Companies
Christchurch shootings, tighter firearm laws make for a quick decision from fund’s guardians.
Regulation
Poland Proposes to Overhaul Private Pensions
Move, aimed at helping the budget deficit, will remove assets from non-government funds.
Market Moves
Hedge Funds Turn Around, With Good First Quarter
Rebound comes after a bruising 2018, as health care and emerging markets do well.
Alternatives
Texas Teachers’ Shoulders Its Way into Blackstone’s Behemoth Private Equity Fund
Sizable commitment shows the pair’s years-long relationship has no signs of fraying.
Risk
At Pension Bridge: What’s the Right Risk-Oriented Way to Allocate Assets?
Wisconsin’s Edwin Denson looks at what the next downturn could mean for investing.
Newsmakers
CalPERS Supports Carbon Pricing
The largest US pension plan wants heavy carbon emitters to pay as part of a plan to combat climate change.
Alternatives
At Pension Bridge: Finding Opportunity in Real Estate
What’s working now and how to take advantage of what isn’t.
Market Moves
Greenspan Says Expanding Entitlements Will Squelch Economic Growth
Former Federal Reserve chief warns that huge obligations will crowd out needed capital spending.
Commerzbank De-Risks $1.6 Billion from Dresdner Kleinwort Pension
Buy-in with PIC is largest deal of the year so far.
Newsmakers
At Pension Bridge: How Susan Oh Is Raising Diversity Awareness for Female Investors
PSERS’s risk parity director tells what prompted her passionate mission.
Alternatives
At Pension Bridge: How a Utah Pension Plan Invests in Farmland
Organization’s head of agriculture and real assets explains what drove the fund to the space.
UK Government Leaves Universities on Their Own to Deal with Increased Public Pension Costs
Opponents call the ruling ‘deeply worrying’ for the future of the country’s higher education institutions.