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Texas Municipal Concludes Director Search

March 12, 2010 - After seven months of serving as the interim Executive Director to the $15.6 billion Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS), David Gavia received permanent distinction as the system’s chief earlier today. According to a posting ...

More Companies Fine Tuning Incentive Programs, Mercer Says

March 12, 2010 - More than 120 employers from across the nation said they have introduced or plan to adjust new “measures” for their 2010 annual incentive programs that would “be commensurate with performance,” a new Mercer study states. According ...

Most U.S. Plans ‘Unfamiliar’ with European Hedge Fund Rules

March 12, 2010 - Due to an impending increase in European hedge fund regulations, investor demand has seemed to shift to Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) over the past year, a Preqin research report ...

KKR Revamps Asset Management Debt Team

March 12, 2010 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has promoted four professionals in its asset management department to run the firm's special situations and leveraged credit strategies. The private equity firm appointed Jamie Weinstein and ...

SFG Names New Research Director

March 11, 2010 - Institutional broker dealer Susquehanna Financial Group (SFG) has hired Michael Towey as its new director of research, as the firm continues to “build out of its fundamental research platform,” a statement issued today said. Towey spent ...

AMG Adds Fidelity Alum to Board

March 11, 2010 - Dwight Churchill has landed on the Board of Directors at Affiliated Managers Group, following his retirement from Fidelity Investments more than a year ago. During his 16-year run at Fidelity, he served as head of the ...

Connecticut AG Sues Ratings Agencies

March 11, 2010 - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed suit against Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s for allegedly enabling the “worst economic downturn in the nation since The Great Depression” due to their issuance of “tainted” ...

GoldenTree Names New Partner

March 11, 2010 - GoldenTree Asset Management, a traditional and alternative assets manager, has added Tom Humphrey as a partner and member of its executive committee. Humphrey joins GoldenTree from Lehman Brothers and ...

Alpine Capital Hires Marketer

March 10, 2010 - St. Louis, Mo.-based firm Alpine Capital Research (ACR) has added Daryl Grayson to help oversee “the firm’s marketing and sales efforts to the financial intermediary and institutional channels,” an announcement said today. The ...

Hirtle Callaghan Carves out PE Role

March 10, 2010 - Jamie Johnson will fill the newly created role of Director of Private Equity at West Conshohocken, Pa.-based Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. In a statement today, the firm said Johnson was brought on board to spearhead its private ...

Phoenix Realty Hires Industry Vet

March 10, 2010 - Edward Ratinoff has been named managing director of national acquisitions at the Phoenix Realty Group (PRG), the firm said in a statement today. He will be responsible for overseeing the firm’s acquisition teams for PRG’s two ...

Toronto Firm Makes Risk-Based Hire

March 9, 2010 - Integrated Asset Management (IAM) has added E. Dennis McCluskey to help manage risk as its new chief executive in the strategy. McCluskey, a former CIT Business Credit Canada founding president and CEO and 23-year Canada ...

Carlyle Taps Morgan Stanley Vet to Lead Capital Markets

March 9, 2010 - The Carlyle Group has nabbed former Morgan Stanley sales and trading chief Michael “Mitch” Petrick as its first global head of credit alternatives and capital markets, the private equity firm said today. Petrick, who's been named ...

Oregon Appoints Replacement Treasurer

March 9, 2010 - Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski filled the state Treasury seat left vacant following the death of Ben Westlund over the weekend. On Sunday, Westlund, 60, lost his bout to lung cancer. He held the Treasury role since ...

Northern Trust Fills Consultant Relations Role

March 9, 2010 - David McPhillips has been appointed director of consultant relations for the corporate and institutional services business unit in North America at Northern Trust. He replaces Matt Severs, Newton Sears, spokesman for the firm, ...