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Toronto Firms Combine to form Navina Asset Management

With the acquisition of Navina Capital Corp.’s outstanding shares at the start of the year, Lawrence Asset Management announced today that both firms would become Navina Asset Management. While the release states the ...

BTIG Hires Duo from Pali Capital

Institutional broker dealer BTIG has appointed another group of former Pali Capital veterans to bolster its client offering. The additions are expected to lead its newly created fundamental equity research group. Last week, BTIG appointed ...

Ohio Highway Patrol Launches Searches

The $650 million Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System (HPRS) Board of Trustees approved two new searches totaling $65 million, Dan Weiss, retirement system executive director and CIO, told IMW. Collectively, $50 million will ...

First Eagle Makes Addition to Portfolio Management Team

Kimball Brooker has been named an associate portfolio manager at First Eagle Investment Management for the firm’s international value strategy. A company statement announcing the promotion said Brooker joined First Eagle ...

BTIG Continues Expansion with U.S. Hires

Brad Berk and Michael Stamberger have joined BTIG from Pali Capital as managing directors and senior sales traders for the institutional equities division. At Pali Capital, Berk and Stamberger were both senior sales traders...

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Oklahoma Muni. Plans for Search, Hires Managers

The Oklahoma Municipal Retirement Fund (OMRF) has selected two new international equity managers for its roster, ending a relationship with incumbent GMO, said a source familiar with the situation. At an investment/finance ...

New York Common Fund Lets Go of Three

The roughly $129 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF) started the year off with a bang and let go of three equity firms last month accounting for a total of $864 million. According to the CRF’s January 2010 pension ...

LASERS Leaves TCW Behind

After three months of discussion, the $7.6 billion Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System (LASERS) Board of Trustees and its Investment Committee decided to terminate The TCW Group, system CIO Bobby Beale told IMW. On ...

Illinois TRS Ends BlackRock Mandate

Due to poor investment performance, the roughly $32.1 billion Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) has terminated BlackRock and placed five other managers on watch during its Feb. 25-26 Board of Trustees meeting. According to ...

Ohio Guns and Hoses Mixes Things Up

The $10.3 billion Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund (OP&F) Board of Trustees decided to make some “levered” changes to its asset allocation mix in order to reduce risk, fund spokesperson David Graham told IMW. The

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