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Cincinnati R.S. Faces Board Shake-Up

The nearly $2 billion City of Cincinnati Retirement System (CRS) could see some new faces on its Board of Trustees come October. Following the passage of a new City ordinance, Roxanne Qualls, vice mayor and newly appointed ...

New Mexico ERB Loses Chairman

The Chairman of the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board (NMERB) has resigned from his position, effective immediately. In a statement on the NMERB Web site, the plan notes that Bruce Malott has left the seven-member board. In the interim ...

Scout Acquires Reams Asset Management

In a deal that will more than double its assets under management, Scout Investment Advisors, a Kansas City, Mo., unit of UMB Financial, announced Thursday it signed a definitive agreement to buy Reams Asset Management ...

Hewitt and Ennis Knupp Close Acquisition Deal, Announce New Moniker

After roughly a month of deliberation, Hewitt Associates said Thursday that its acquisition of investment consultant powerhouse Ennis Knupp + Associates has been approved. The new entity, which will assume the name of Hewitt EnnisKnupp ...

California Legislators’ Pass Placement Agent Bill

Current concern surrounding placement agent activity and its ties to state pension funds investment contracts seems to have fueled the passage of California Assemblyman Ed Hernandez’s (D-West Covina) February legislation. At the start of the ...

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Kentucky Pension Fund Paid Middlemen

A new internal audit report released yesterday claims that the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) paid nearly $13 million to placement agents in order to secure attractive investment deals with the plan over the course of the last six years. The “Placement ...

Fees for All

The vendor and consumer relationship and its ties to fee bartering can be traced back to our forefathers. However, for many, recent examples exhibited through the investment manager/plan sponsor relationship may conjure up ...

Kern County Creates Investment Officer Function

The Kern County Employees’ Retirement Association (KCERA) is searching for an industry professional to fill the newly created role of investment officer at the plan. The investment officer will report directly to Executive Director Anne ...

Hedgies Likely Want to Forget Q2 Performance

It's been a white-knuckled roller-coaster ride for hedge funds and their investors so far this year—gains won in the first quarter were surrendered in the second. The relatively poor performance is likely a concern for the fund ...

Illinois SBI Optimistic About Portfolio’s Future

Over the past year, the Illinois State Board of Investment (ISBI) has been gladly situated at its “modeled benchmark” and anticipates troubled asset classes to rise as 2010 progresses, Executive Director William Atwood told IMW today. In ...

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