News Corporation shareholders have sued the Rupert Murdoch-owned company, alleging that the board failed to exercise proper oversight and take sufficient action since news of phone hacking first emerged at its subsidiary nearly six years ago.
The Commonfund Benchmarks Study of Healthcare Organizations Report revealed that nonprofit healthcare providers averaged 10.9% return on investable assets in FY2010, continuing a positive trend from 2009.
U.S. and European private equity, venture capital, and buyout funds showed strong levels of fund-raising in the first half of 2011, says Dow Jones LP Source.
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has published proposals to improve the way US state and local governments report pension liabilities.
While pension funds are increasingly diversifying into alternative investments, new data from Towers Watson’s Global Pension Asset Study shows schemes remain skeptical about the fees charged by alternative investment managers.
Martin Jack, the former director of IBM's in-house pension and risk management consulting group in Europe, has died of a heart attack. By Jay Vivian, retired Managing Director, IBM Retirement Funds.
The European Institutional Asset Management Survey indicates that institutional investment in ETFs decreased by 6% over the past year, but the motivation for the change is not clear-cut.
Private real estate investors have grown increasingly bullish about the future of the market and are ready to embrace more risk, a study by Preqin has shown.
State and federal regulators have ordered JPMorgan to pay $228 million in a settlement of allegations that the bank's securities division rigged the market for municipal bond derivatives.
