09/11/2015
Loeb Reinsurer Says ‘Tough Out There’ Amid Two-Year Share Slump
Hedge funds, pensions and wealthy individuals have entered reinsurance seeking weather-related investments
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09/11/2015
GE explores sale of pension manager
Proceeds of the sale will be put into the pension trust.
09/11/2015
Leading San Francisco-Based Wealth Management Team, Led by Entrepreneur David Steele, Launches One Wealth Advisors as an Independent Advisory Firm
The team collaborates with professionals providing support to families including their estate lawyers
09/11/2015
Fund Managers Assess the Global Real Estate Investment Market
A roundtable with global real estate fund managers looks at rising interest rates and Europe.
09/11/2015
Adage Capital Management Shakes Up Hedge Fund Industry With Refund Guarantee
According to a New York Times article published June 5, 2015, an estimated $180 billion could be raised over 10 years
09/11/2015
Standard Chartered and Manulife Form 15-year Pension Distribution Partnership
The MPF industry in Hong Kong is experiencing continued consolidation, and Manulife is seen as a partner of choice.
09/11/2015
Raymond James to open private client group office in Boise
Raymond James, a publicly traded holding company in St. Petersburg, Fla., has more than 6,500 financial advisors
09/11/2015
Banner Corporation Receives Regulatory Approval for AmericanWest Bank Merger with Banner Bank
The transaction is expected to close early in the fourth quarter of 2015
09/11/2015
Everstream Receives $50M Investment from M/C Partners and J.P. Morgan Asset Management
The team that provides day-to-day support to all of the existing customers and network operations will be part of Everstream going forward.
09/10/2015
AltX Adds Cowen Group to Team of Strategic Investors
Cowen is dedicated to enabling outperformance and we are thankful to have some of the most successful and sophisticated investors and firms in the world
09/10/2015
OppenheimerFunds buys VTL Associates
We are expediting that process with a strategic acquisition
09/10/2015
Cacoeli Asset Management, Inc. Unveils Done-For-You Real Estate Wealth-Building
They handle the heavy-lifting with this done-for-you system, so their investors can enjoy a healthy return on their capital
09/10/2015
ETFs open doors to small firms shaking up foreign markets
While the overall SUV market is growing in China, the big winners aren’t the major global car companies.
09/09/2015
Amundi Smith Breeden Announces Total Return Bond Fund
Mutual fund investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal.
09/09/2015
Sovereign Wealth Funds Play An Increased Role in Real Estate
Since 2009, the third-generation landlord has raised some $5 billion of equity.
09/09/2015
KKR and Marshall Wace to Form Long-Term Strategic Partnership
The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to KKR’s after-tax Total Distributable Earnings per unit
09/09/2015
Ken Griffin is closing in on one of the most expensive apartments in New York real estate history
The purchase comes amid Griffin's divorce from his wife of 11 years
09/09/2015
Former Goldman Trading Executive to Launch Hedge Fund
Edward Eisler has raised nearly $1 billion for macro fund
09/08/2015
Everyone is asking the wrong question about hedge fund performance
Activist investors, in particular, hold highly concentrated positions in a small number of companies.
09/08/2015
Divorcing hedge funder quietly buying home in ‘billionaires’ bunker’
Chicago-based Citadel founder Griffin, 46, who is worth $7 billion, is still mired in an ugly divorce from his wife of 11 years