From aiCIO Magazine: Editor-at-Large Joe Flood executes the ultimate tie-in-reviewing a book on the roots of innovation (whose author shares an editor with Flood) two weeks after our Industry Innovation Awards. Kudos, Flood.
Mohamed El-Erian at Pacific Investment Management Co, which runs the world's biggest bond fund, has revised his outlook for US growth in 2011 following President Barack Obama's tax-cut compromise deal.
Investment managers are seeing an increase in the number of requests for proposals (RFPs) from insurance companies seeking third party services as the manager selection process evolves to meet increasingly complex investment needs.
Chief Executive Officer Johannes Teyssen revealed that E.ON wants to raise $20 billion through asset disposals by the end of 2013 to lure pensions looking for steady, inflation-protected returns electricity lines provide.
A report released this week shows the number and value of
acquisitions made by sovereign wealth funds followed by the Monitor
Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) doubled in the first half
of 2010, with SWFs spending the most money in Europe, which accounted
for 40% of the total expenditure, followed by North America, which
accounted for about a third of the total value of deals, or about $7.5
billion.
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, manager of more than $100 billion of reserves, has released its annual report for the third year, revealing positive news: a recoup of most of the losses made in 2008 as stock markets rebounded.
A significant decrease in corporate bond interest rates has driven a $108 billion decrease in the funded status of the 100 large defined benefit plans tracked by Milliman.
The investment in the fund, which will target Southeast Asian infrastructure and new energy projects, is yet another sign of China's heightened financial importance in the region.
ai5000's Joe Flood digs into the causes of the May 6th Flash Crash — when nearly 1000 points mysteriously disappeared from the market in a matter of minutes — and unearths internal analysis leaked from a Bank That Shall Not Be Named, surprising new data from the market research firm Nanex, and a first-time admission from the NYSE: that there were significant price reporting delays on May 6th, delays which contributed to the Crash.
Connecticut's attorney general alleges that Thomas Kannam's “golf outing of the century” in California, a Super Bowl outing, and a trip to the United Kingdom with his entire family to interview for a job at Cambridge University were flagrant abuses of both his power and of the university's endowment assets.
By using this site you agree to our network wide Privacy Policy.
