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March 29, 2012
The North Carolina Retirement Systems’ upcoming $4.5 billion bet on equity strategies isn’t about January or February. Nor is it about last year.
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March 01, 2012
Fund of funds Prisma Capital Partners leaps over the competition by investing in smaller managers and customizing clients’ portfolios.
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February 01, 2012
With Citigroup’s private bank focusing on ultrawealthy investors, consultationis in and one-size-fits-all is out.
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November 01, 2011
How South Carolina Retirement Systems’ CIO Robert Borden is teaming up with Apollo and Lighthouse to whittle down his exposures
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October 01, 2011
J.P. Morgan’s private bankers court hedge fund managers
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September 01, 2011
Ascension Health’s Josh Kaplan is redesigning the portfolio to look at varying economic environments, which is giving more exposure to hedge funds
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July 01, 2011
Permal’s CEO takes a statistical route to estimating risk
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June 01, 2011
Ohio’s pension for public workers bets on both funds of funds and hedge funds
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May 01, 2011
Morgan Stanley’s Jacques Chappuis has found a niche strategy that makes its fund of-funds fees worthwhile
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April 01, 2011
Massachusetts’ state pension for public workers experiments with going direct
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April 01, 2011
The message? No more magicians.
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March 02, 2011
The state’s pension for police officers and firefighters bets on portable alpha despite the pitfalls.
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March 02, 2011
The Chicago fund of funds is coming back, thanks in part to its tougher approach toward hedge fund managers following the crash of 2008
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February 08, 2011
The New York fund of funds was a top performer in 2010.
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February 01, 2011
To survive these days, funds of funds have to meet investors’ needs for customized accounts, risk management & even advise on investing directly in hedge funds.
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December 09, 2010
The state’s pension fund for public employees is pouring more into hedge funds.
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December 09, 2010
The big bank’s fund of funds touts its risk management as it rebuilds assets and continues to produce unflashy returns.
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November 01, 2010
The council that oversees the state’s pension fund votes to bet more on hedge funds.
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November 01, 2010
The Commonfund’s Lyn Hutton says chasing returns & an overreliance on diversification led investors into the abyss.
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September 30, 2010
The fund proves forward thinking in its hedge fund investments.
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August 31, 2010
The state's pension for teachers is changing its hedge fund portfolio.
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August 31, 2010
Despite Goldman Sachs' run-in with the Securities & Exchange Commission, its fund-of-funds unit continues to grow.
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July 09, 2010
Calstrs’ CIO discusses the market outlook, the search for the perfect manager and why the third largest pension in the U.S. is investing in hedge funds for the first time.
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July 01, 2010
Wyoming approves hedge funds for the first time.
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July 01, 2010
The U.K.'s second-largest private sector pension fund makes a big bet.
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June 01, 2010
The city's pensions consider investing via funds of funds.
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June 01, 2010
The Republican candidate for comptroller is a former partner of Silver Point Capital.
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May 01, 2010
After some high-profile mistakes, San Diego's retirement plan is changing how it invests in hedge funds.
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March 31, 2010
The state's retirement plan for teachers revamps its approach to absolute returns.
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March 31, 2010
The man who helped inspire Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street," now heading Blackstone's funds of funds unit, talks about the fundraising environment, challenges to new managers, and how the world has changed.
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March 01, 2010
Turmoil at Cadogan led the Alaska Retirement Management Board to shake up its whole portfolio.
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March 01, 2010
Cooperman funds Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
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March 01, 2010
Aksia's reputation soared when a warning not to invest in Madoff became public last year, and the firm has taken off. The consultant talks about the next red flags, how fees are changing and how Aksia's due diligence process works.
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February 01, 2010
The new 7% portfolio is the pension fund's first formal allocation to hedge funds.
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December 18, 2009
CIO Borden says trimming funds of funds should boost returns, cut costs.
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October 29, 2009
Philadelphia puts its money into single-manager funds to get more control, better access & lower fees.
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October 29, 2009
— but doesn't play the victim card.
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September 23, 2009
Instead of controlling risk, portable alpha added to it, largely because of the leverage involved.
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August 25, 2009
The biggest U.S. pension plan is dumping celebrated names, demanding more power and making plans to run money itself.
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August 24, 2009
The University of Arizona has ditched traditional asset allocation in favor of a system that gives it more leeway to invest in hedge funds.
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August 24, 2009
Pension funds are still waiting for markets to normalize before making larger allocations.
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August 06, 2009
The Florida SBA is close to making its first allocation to hedge funds.
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June 16, 2009
ATP's Fredrik Martinsson has been the driving force behind in-house hedge funds.
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November 24, 2008
From the cradle of American funds of hedge funds comes an infatuation with diversification.
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October 24, 2008
Permal focuses on finding the best people and funds.