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A Rocky Mountain-based pension plan will move a recently terminated hedge fund-of-funds mandate to a more conservative approach in the asset class.

A West Coast pension fund is keeping close tabs on three underperforming absolute return managers.

A Midwestern pension plan approved a pair of credit commitments following interviews at a meeting today.

Endowments typically invest countercyclically by decreasing active risky allocations during the run-up to a crisis, such as the Global Financial Crisis, and then increasing these allocations as risky asset prices fall following the start of a crisis, new research shows.

A West Coast trust fund has approved maiden hires for its new risk mitigating and private equity portfolios.

A county pension fund in the South made private equity commitments as part of its pacing plan and will look to add additional commitments.