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Q3 2024: Hedge Funds Provide Opportunity For Best Risk-Adjusted Returns
Hedge funds overall may not have the panache today that they held in the early aughts but institutions continue to find these strategies to be beneficial in providing portfolios with the best risk-adjusted returns in today’s market and the future.
11.19.24
Midwest Plan Targets Risk Mitigating Strategies
The plan will allocate 10% of its portfolio to risk mitigating strategies as part of a new asset allocation.
11.20.24
Midwest Pension Axes Emerging Manager Program
The decision comes after the plan had initially decided to go ahead with a search for emerging managers-of-managers last month.
11.20.24
New England Pension Conducting Investment Consultant Search
The plan rehired its incumbent following a similar search conducted in 2017.
11.20.24
Southern Fire Pension Rehires Index Manager, Custodian
The plan relaunched a search after initially hiring a firm last year.
11.20.24
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Florida Pension Nabs Consultant
The pension fund concluded a general investment consultant search by selecting its incumbent this week.
11.20.24
Frazier Healthcare Closes 11th Growth Buyout Fund
The fund hit its $2.3 billion hard cap in six months.
11.20.24
In The News
Hollins Asks To Expand Pay-To-Play Investigation To Whitmire’s State Of The City Address
City Controller Chris Hollins wants any investigation into his office’s fundraising practices to extend to the Mayor’s State of the City event, he said in a letter to the Office of Inspector General and City Council Ethics Committee.
Q&A with WashU’s Chief Investment Officer Scott Wilson
Wilson, who oversees the St. Louis-based university’s approximatley $2.5 billion endowment, speaks about managing the portfolio in today’s market.
Abrdn to launch AI tool with Edinburgh University
Abrdn, the UK-listed fund management group, is working with the University of Edinburgh to develop a generative AI tool with a “statistical brain” to work alongside its investment research team.
Weapons, Fossil Fuels, Illegal Settlements: Inside UMass’ Investment Portfolio
As UMass backs out of a commitment to consider divestment, an investigation reveals its endowment has millions indirectly invested in defense contractors and other entities targeted by student activists.