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Macquarie Securities Beefs Up Trading Team

Equity staffing improvements seems to be at the top of Macquarie Securities Group’s 2010 to-do list as the Australian-based institutional arm has added a half dozen new senior equities traders to its U.S. and U.K. stable, an announcement said yesterday...

SSgA Names Lowe to Replace Departing Global Equities CIO

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has tapped Alistair Lowe to succeed retiring Global Equities CIO Arlene Rockefeller, the firm said today...

Evercore Partners Unveils New Institutional Equity Presence

As Evercore Partners continues to grow and expand, evidence of this positive progression can been seen today as the independent investment bank has successfully established its institutional equities business...

Cincinnati Retirement Board Changes on the Horizon

Due to the lack of expertise and accountability on the City of Cincinnati’s retirement board, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls and fellow Council members are looking to revamp the Board’s make-up in order to increase transparency and weed out conflicts of interest...

Buckeye State Takes Huge Hit from Lehman Collapse

U.S. Representative Mary Kilroy (D-Ohio) told the House Financial Services Committee today that her state’s retirement and pension funds lost nearly a half billion dollars ...

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Odds & Ends - September 21, 2009

*Val Guilford has joined the equity sales and trading team at CastleOak Securities. He was most recently president and head global trader of MAGNA Securities Corp. He was also co-CEO of Magna Securities Global. *Hammond Associates Institutional Fund Consultants has hired Terry Daniels as an associate consultant.*David Keiran has joined real estate investment firm Marcus Partners and a principal and CFO. He will be based in Boston. Before joining Marcus Partners, he was a senior…

Odds & Ends - August 31, 2009

*Northern Trust has named Connie Lindsey as Head of Corporate Social Responsibility. The newly created position includes responsibility for the design and implementation of Northern Trust's Corporate Social Responsibility goals, strategy, policies and programs. She will also oversee the firm’s response to environmental matters and social issues with the marketplace, workplace and community, Northern Trust said in a statement. Lindsey has served as an executive VP and segment head in the public entities and institution…

Odds & Ends - August 10, 2009

*The Maryland State Retirement System saw its assets decline by 20% for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009. The fund now has a portfolio valued at $28.5 billion, it has announced. The system said the losses reflect declines seen in the domestic and international equity markets during the same timeframe.*Margaret Foran has joined Prudential Finance as VP, chief governance officer and secretary. She will report to Susan Blount, senior VP and general counsel at…

Odds & Ends - August 3, 2009

*New Jersey State Attorney General Anne Milgrim has filed a lawsuit against Merrill Lynch & Co. The suit alleges that Merrill Lynch sold the New Jersey Division of Investment $300 million in stock in January 2008 based on misleading information. The Division of Investment oversees the pension fund investments for the state.*The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM) has posted a loss of 23.6% or $12.8 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30.…

Odds & Ends - July 27, 2009

*New York City Pension Funds will divest from Oil and Natural Gas Limited and PetroChina due to the companies ties to Iran, William Thompson, comptroller of New York City has announced. The shares are worth approximately $10.8 million. *Morgan Stanley has named Jack DiMaio global head of interest rate, credit and currency trading. He was previously head of fixed-income for Credit Suisse’s North America operations and head of alternative investments at Credit Suisse Asset Management.…

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