Domestic Equity

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.

A plan based in the Midwest has adapted its investment manager relationships.

A Northeastern university added a global equity manager and a domestic equity firm to its endowment last month.

A Northeastern pension plan made a hire in its replacement domestic small-cap value equity manager search.

A pension fund in Kentucky has disclosed domestic and emerging markets equity hires and private equity commitments.

A Northeastern pension plan has issued an RFP seeking domestic large-cap growth equity managers.