Absolute Return
Colorado Plan Makes PE Commitments, Redeems Absolute Return Fund

A Colorado pension fund has made three private markets commitments and redeemed from an absolute return manager.

03.31.20
Alternatives
Florida Police Plan Makes Financing Commitment

A Florida-based police pension fund made a commitment to a maritime financing vehicle in January.

03.26.20
Fixed-Income
Great Lakes Plan Adds Credit Mgrs.

A Great Lakes-based pension plan added a pair of credit investments last month.

03.26.20
Daily Feed
Private Equity Investors Try to Gauge Coronavirus Cash Crunch

Limited partners are hoping the stock-market declines don’t keep them from putting more cash into private equity, the Wall Street Journal reports.

03.18.20
In The News
GoldPoint Partners Closes $678 Million Select Manager Fund

GoldPoint Partners announced the closing of its fourth fund-of-funds, GoldPoint Partners Select Manager Fund IV, with $678 million of commitments, a 150 percent increase from its predecessor fund.

01.22.20
A Fresh Look at REITs

Institutional investors have embraced commercial real estate, but their reluctance to allocate to equity REITs has been costly for beneficiaries over the last decade. As the search for yield continues, a fresh look at equity REITs is warranted, Adelante Capital Management says.

01.15.20
In The News
The Hidden Dangers Of The Great Index Fund Takeover

BlackRock, Vanguard Group and State Street Global Advisors are the three most important players in corporate America, accounting for 22% of shares of the typical S&P 500 company, according to Bloomberg.

01.15.20
In The News
Pathway Closes $1 Billion for Private Credit Fund

Pathway Capital Management has closed on a $1 billion private credit fund, the firm announced. The Pathway Private Credit Fund II will provide debt financing in support of acquisition, recapitalization, refinancing and growth capital transactions sponsored by leading private equity firms.

01.15.20
In The News
Private Equity's Talent Challenge: Keeping It Out Of The Family

Family offices, which handle the wealth of the very rich and their kin, are increasingly poaching young talent from buyout firms, challenging the private equity industry’s claim as the destination of choice for aspiring dealmakers, Reuters reports.

01.08.20
Trends
2020 Traditional Investments Outlook

Expectations for the equity and bond markets in 2020 continue to be cautiously optimistic after a 2019 market that left bearish investors wishing they had kicked that sentiment down the road a year or two.

While many do not expect the market to perform in 2020 quite like it did in 2019, nonprofit investors are still not expecting their real spending targets to come under heavy pressure in the near-term as they gauge the economic cycle and its ability to sustain its growth trajectory.

01.02.20