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Legal & General expanding its market focusLegal & General Investment Management has been expanding through what might be dubbed as a grave-to-cradle approach to pension funds.
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New risk management tools for a post-financial crisis eraInstitutional investors are reaching out for new risk management tools to address shortcomings in estimating risks that left them more exposed to losses in the financial market crisis than they expected.
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Equity market jump helps bottom lines of money managersRising equity markets helped large publicly traded money managers such as Invesco Ltd., Affiliated Managers Group Inc. and Franklin Resources Inc. gain higher-fee inflows in the first quarter of 2013, but it's far from clear whether that could signal a groundswell toward stocks and away from ...
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Deadline looms for Best Places to Work, Innovators
Time is running out to participate in two of Pensions & Investments' biggest editorial projects of the year.
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'Insourcing' trend growing among big institutional investorsLarge institutional investors increasingly are “insourcing” asset management to improve returns by cutting costs.
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Firms go extra mile to help marathon bombing victimsMoney managers in Boston stepped up to the plate to contribute to One Fund Boston, created by the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts to assist families of the three people killed in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings and the scores who were severely injured.
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Will giant TXU LBO become a distressed debt deal?Energy Future Holdings Corp., the company formerly known as TXU Corp., is morphing from the largest LBO ever to what could be an enormous distressed debt buying opportunity.
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Stars are aligning for resurgence of buyout boomCheap debt and easy loan terms like those available now typically set the stage for the return of the megaleveraged buyouts, but market participants are divided over what kinds of opportunities are likely to arise.
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Retirement calculators evolve into sophisticated toolsInteractive financial calculators, long a staple of defined contribution plans, have evolved from a collection of numbers that yield a lump-sum accumulation to a detailed analysis of retirement spending that counts more than a participant's DC plan balance.
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Accounting changes are pushing Japanese companies to DC plans
New accounting rules effective this year are prompting a growing number of companies in Japan to add defined contribution plans to their retirement programs or to expand existing ones.
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Buzz on advertising rising as regs nearAn 80-year-old tradition of silence among issuers of private offerings is coming to an end, as SEC officials finish rules lifting a ban against solicitation and general advertising during periods of fundraising.
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EMEA is a driving force in BlackRock's growthBlackRock Inc. is revving its overseas growth engine, powered to a large extent by the company's institutional business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Money managers looking good to PE firmsPrivate equity firms' interest in money manager investments is rising in tandem with the managers' increases in assets under management and revenue.
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Something for everyone at Milken conferenceA near-term recovery of the global economy was given no better than 50/50 odds by Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC during a packed session of the Milken Institute Global Conference.
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CalSTRS takes bold step in governanceA shareholder proposal by the California State Teachers' Retirement System, aimed at breaking Timken Co. into two separate companies, is taking activism by pension funds to a new level.
