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CPPIB Posts 119 Gain In FY11

May 20, 2011

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board the countrys secondbiggest public pension manager reported a return of 119 in the latest fiscal year

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Gibson Foundation Unveils Library Fund

May 20, 2011

The Gibson County Community Foundation has set up a new fund to help construct a new library in the town of Haubstadt

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Illinois Teachers Awards 265M Mandate

May 20, 2011

Illinois Teachers Retirement System Springfield has awarded a 265 million TIPS mandate to Hartford Investment Management

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JP Morgan MF Floats Equity Offshore Fund

May 20, 2011

JPMorgan Mutual Fund has launched a new open ended fund of funds scheme

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Nomura AM Chief To Head Americas Business

May 20, 2011

Nomura Holdings has named Atsushi Yoshikawa as president and CEO of Nomura Holding America

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Alexandria Police Fire Seeks Two Managers

May 13, 2011

Alexandria Police and Firefighters Pension Plan is looking for two domestic core equity managers

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The Evolution of Water Risk in the Municipal Bond Market

May 2, 2011

Sharlene Leurig, senior manager of insurance programs at Ceres, discusses how attitudes around water risk have changed since the organization’s report was published last October.

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AEGON To Manage Transamerica Seg Funds

May 2, 2011

AEGON Capital Management has replaced Transamerica Investment Management as the portfolio manager of segregated funds available within Transamerica Life Canadas segregated fund contracts

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Argentine Pension Agency Names TGS Rep

May 2, 2011

Anses has appointed its second representative to the board of Transportadora de Gas del Sur

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Aston DoubleLine To Float Bond Fund

May 2, 2011

Aston Asset Management and fixed income investment management firm DoubleLine Capital will launch a new openend mutual fund in early July 2011

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Belo Breaks Up Pension Plan

May 1, 2011

AH Belo has split its GB Dealey Retirement Pension Plan into separatelysponsored plans

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GAMCO Appoints Deutsche AM Director

May 1, 2011

GAMCO Investors has appointed David Goldman as vice president corporate development and general counsel of Gabelli Funds

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Morgan Dempsey Floats Debut MF

May 1, 2011

Morgan Dempsey Capital Management has launched a small and micro cap mutual fund

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US Bank Buys BofA Securitization Unit

May 1, 2011

US Bancorp lead bank US Bank National Association has acquired Bank of America domestic and Europeanbased securitization trust administration businesses

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Reversing the Rush to ‘Fix’ the Derivatives Market

April 27, 2011

An increasing number of academics, economists and public officials say the central clearing rules for derivatives trading is fraught with new risks, and may not work as well as people think.

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BlackRock Earns 568M In Q1

April 25, 2011

BlackRock has reported results for the first quarter that ended on March 31 2011

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Ameriprise Eyes ETF Manager Grail

April 15, 2011

Ameriprise Financial is seeking to acquire active exchangetraded fund manager Grail Advisors

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John Paulson Says Go And Buy Houses

April 13, 2011

John Paulson, founder of $30 billion hedge fund firm Paulson & Co., tells investors to look at real estate, buy a house or two, and don’t hesitate to take out an extra mortgage.

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World Exchange Organization Pursues OTC Risk Reduction

April 7, 2011

The World Federation of Exchanges and its Deputy Secretary General, Peter Clifford, want to reduce systemic risk through exchange trading and clearing, while still leaving room for OTC markets. They now share common goals for more transparency and clearing with the bond market.(See related stories)

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Mexican Stock Exchange Welcomes High Frequency Traders

April 6, 2011

Seeking liquidity and growth, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores makes life easy for these controversial firms.

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Sustainable Stock Exchanges: Easier Said Than Done?

April 6, 2011

Under pressure to boost listed companies’ reporting standards, exchanges have good reason to be cautious.

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Alexandria PF Seeks Equity Managers

April 3, 2011

Alexandria Police and Firefighters Pension Plan is planning to hire two international equity managers

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Ascensus 3D Launch ETF AdvisorPlan

April 3, 2011

Retirement plan solutions provider Ascensus has been chosen by 3D Asset Management to partner on its ETF AdvisorPlan product

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Bentall Kennedy Hires Portfolio Manager

April 2, 2011

Bentall Kennedy has appointed David Antonelli as a portfolio manager of its openend core fund MultiEmployer Property Trust

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BMO Launches Ten New ETFs

April 2, 2011

Bank of Montreal Asset Management has unveiled 10 more ETFs

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CalPERS Seeks Majority Vote For Apple Board

April 2, 2011

California Public Employees Retirement System Sacramento is seeking shareowner support for its proposal to require a majority vote to appoint unopposed candidates to the board of Apple

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Dow Chemical DB Plan To Get 800M In 2011

April 2, 2011

Michiganbased Dow Chemical may contribute 700800 million to its US defined benefit plan in 2011

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MSSB Boosts Pension Services

April 2, 2011

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has expanded its retirement plan services

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Russell To Float Three ETFs

April 2, 2011

Russell Investments is launching three new exchangetraded funds

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Russell Unveils Stability Indices

April 2, 2011

Russell Investments has launched the Russell Stability Indexes

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Teucrium To Float Crude Oil Fund

April 2, 2011

Teucrium Trading will launch a new single commodity exchangetraded product

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CalPERS Transfers 998M RE Portfolio

April 1, 2011

The California Public Employees Retirement System has transferred a 998 million office properties portfolio from Hines

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Illinois Plans RhumbLine SSgA Allocations

April 1, 2011

Illinois State Board of Investment Chicago may assign 960 million in proceeds from a 41 billion state pension bond sale to index funds and some active managers

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JPMAM Names DC Investment Solutions Head

April 1, 2011

JP Morgan Asset Management has appointed John Galateria as managing director head of defined contribution investment solutions

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New Problems With 401k TargetDate Funds

April 1, 2011

Investors learned the hard way in 2008 that targetdate funds dont necessarily protect them when the market crashes not even funds that are marketed to people close to retirement age Now it turns out these products also dont solve another common 401k problem taking the money out too soon

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ProShares Floats Two VIXRelated ETFs

April 1, 2011

ProShares has rolled out two exchangetraded funds linked to the stock markets fear index

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TCW Unveils EM Local Currency Fund

April 1, 2011

US investment manager TCW Group has launched a new emerging market local currency fund

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US NatGas Fund Weighs Reverse Split

April 1, 2011

The United States Natural Gas Fund is mulling a reverse split if gas prices extend a decline

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Yeshiva Univ Investment Chief Exits

April 1, 2011

Sid Browne has stepped down from his role as CIO of the 12 billion consolidated investment pool of Yeshiva University New York

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Bishop To Float Three New Funds

March 28, 2011

Bishop Asset Managements president and cofounder Rob Steele is planning to launch three new mutual funds

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BlackRock Appoints DC Head

March 28, 2011

BlackRock has appointed Robert Francis as its managing director in the definedcontribution group

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Buck Opens Pension Advisory Unit

March 28, 2011

Buck Consultants has started a new advisory division to offer pension plan and endowment clients access to a broader range of fund managers and investment strategies

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BlackRock Unveils Three Equity Funds

March 25, 2011

BlackRock is rolling out three new equity income funds investing in baskets of incomeproducing stocks

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Global X To Launch Auto Farming ETFs

March 25, 2011

Global X will unveil two new funds focusing on the auto sector and the farming industry

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What Now For Investors In Japan?

March 23, 2011

Japan’s earthquake disaster leaves investors with an array of questions, some of which were addressed at a panel discussion at Columbia University.

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Japan With More Confidence After Earthquake?

March 21, 2011

Senior Advisor at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia’ Business School Alicia Ogawa thinks Japan will come out of this crisis with more confidence and a better set of regulations to embark upon the future.

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Minnesota Axes 300M LargeCap Mandate

March 21, 2011

Minnesota State Board of Investment has cancelled a 300 million mandate

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Mesirow Financial Appoints CEO

March 21, 2011

Mesirow Financial Holdings has appointed Richard Price as Chairman and CEO

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Florida Terminates 94B Mandates

March 21, 2011

Florida State Board of Administration has cancelled four coreplus fixedincome mandates

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