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Rhode Island's Pension System Outperforms Most Peers For Second Year In A Row

Rhode Island’s pension system continues to improve its relative investment performance when compared to similarly sized public pension funds, outperforming 78% of its peers in the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2019.

08.16.19
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Asset Managers Warned Over Poor Data Governance In ESG Rush

Asset managers must be careful not to apply lower standards of governance to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) data than to other inputs into the investment process, according to a report.

08.15.19
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Och-Ziff Changing Name To Sculptor Capital Management

The hedge fund firm will change its name to Sculptor Capital Management next month as it looks to put a foreign bribery scandal behind it, CIO reports.

08.14.19
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Canada Pension Plan Posts 1.1% Return In First Quarter

(Reuters) – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the country’s biggest public pension fund, on Wednesday eked out a 1.1% return on its investments in the first quarter, hit by a stronger Canadian dollar.

08.14.19
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A Hedge Fund, A Bond Default And A College’s Fight To Survive

The fate of a Florida college founded by a black civil rights activist may be in the hands of a California hedge fund.

08.14.19
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Aegon Real Assets US Closes $151 Million LIHTC Fund

Aegon Real Assets US announced the closing of a $151 million national low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund sponsored by Aegon RA, a member company of Aegon Asset Management, the global group of asset managers affiliated with Netherlands-based Aegon N.V.

08.13.19
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Louisiana Pension Sues Cardinal Health Over Cordis Acquisition

Class action suit alleges company misrepresentations led to ‘artificially inflated’ share prices.

08.09.19
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Emerging-Market Stocks Correct Sharply As Trade Battle Flares

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is down 11% from its recent highs, putting it in correction territory.

08.08.19
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Hedge Fund Investor Jeffrey Tarrant Dies

Tarrant, the founder of Protege Partners, died of a brain tumor, Reuters reports.

08.08.19
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Funded Ratios Erode For Downstate And Suburban Illinois Pension Funds

The collective unfunded pension tab for more than 600 downstate and suburban Illinois public safety funds grew by $1 billion to $11 billion, with the funded ratio recording its first decline since 2010, according to the latest figures submitted by the funds.

08.08.19