Hints and tips:
...While many sovereign wealth funds, American university endowments, and pension funds have paused Chinese investments, Shen has courted prominent US limited partners....
...“China has been a place where you could deploy capital, but getting it out is harder,” said Allen Waldrop, director of private equity investments at the $81bn Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, which has...
...“Once the bank got into capital markets and trading, it started to lose its DNA and the mentality changed,” said Kaufmann, whose foundation represents Swiss pension funds and institutional investors that...
...In October Amnesty International wrote to Oregon’s public employee retirement system, Alaska’s $81bn permanent fund and two English local government pension funds, East Riding Pension Fund and the South...
...However, the FT revealed last week that the recapitalisation involved the owners — which include sovereign wealth, private equity and pension funds — providing a £515mn convertible loan with an 8 per cent...
...One year the levy imposed by the UK’s Pension Protection Fund, which rescues pension funds when their sponsors become insolvent, rose by enough to wipe out the company’s profits....
...As fund managers, we felt that if anyone could lead this change it was him. As for the plan, cost cuts help. M&S closed unprofitable stores....
...So, for instance, they decided to close down the pension arrangements, which were absurdly generous....
...Asset managers are increasingly onside too, including private equity groups, Baxter said, in part because of their need to keep raising capital from pension funds, university endowments and other limited...
...On Friday, the US military shot down what it described as a “high-altitude object” off the coast of Alaska....
...If pension funds and asset managers can gain the added security offered by insurance, some of these riskier asset classes in developing nations may be in line for much larger flows of capital....
...These investors include Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Capital, Oregon’s public employee retirement system, Alaska’s $81bn permanent fund, two Yorkshire local government pension schemes and the pension fund of Centrica...
...All US pension funds and most other institutional investors can now opt to have BlackRock vote for them, tell it to follow recommendations from a third-party proxy adviser or vote directly on shareholder...
...Rising yields were threatening to destabilise pension funds whose hedges against lower rates now required collateral injections. Bailey’s predicament is that his pledge expires in a week....
...Have you made any pension provision?I have a private pension that I started when I was 30....
...BREIT is now a central plank in Blackstone’s attempt to broaden out from selling its funds to big institutions like sovereign wealth funds and pension plans to “ordinary” (ish) investors....
...Calpers records first loss since 2009 The largest public pension plan in the US has blamed “tumultuous” global markets for the fund’s first annual loss since the global financial crisis in 2009....
...The whole model is based on the idea that pension funds and other investors in private equity funds will continue paying those fees, even though it’s clear they no longer serve the purpose they were invented...
...With an investor base spanning Essex county council’s pension fund in the UK to Alaska’s sovereign wealth fund, AIP’s team of ex-bankers and former industrial executives has accumulated businesses across...
...Another option is the India Capital Growth Fund which invests in mid and small cap companies only....
...The region already has a head start on the rest of the UK in green electrical technology....
...Yesterday, Calpers joined some other pension funds in announcing it would vote for Engine No 1’s slate at the AGM....
...The list of institutional investors that have made commitments to the fund includes Dai-ichi Life Insurance, a leading European pension fund, Standard Chartered Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, according...
...President Joe Biden’s “American jobs plan”, unveiled last month, calls for $2tn of investment in highways, electrical grids and other basic infrastructure....
...Stagecoach also carries a pension liability of £263m....
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