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Norfolk County pension plan seeks international equity manager
Norfolk County Retirement System is searching for an international small-cap equity manager to run up to $20 million.
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Facebook brings its friends downMay was a month of great expectations for social media stocks with Facebook's initial public offering on May 18. However, the Global X Social Media index ETF is down 13% month-to-date through Wednesday. The fund's top three holdings - LinkedIn, Tencent Holdings and DeNA Co - are down 5.2%, 14% and
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Calvert County plans issue international equity RFP
Calvert County Employees Retirement Plan and the Calvert County Sheriff's Department Pension Plan, both in Prince Frederick, Md., are searching for an active international equity manager to run $10 million.
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Philadelphia Gas Works taps Fred Alger for large-cap growth
Philadelphia Gas Works Retirement Reserve hired Fred Alger Management to run $27 million in active domestic large-cap growth equities.
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Kentucky garners 3 midcap equity managers to run $545 million
Kentucky Retirement Systems hired Geneva Capital Management, Systematic Financial Management and Sasco Capital to manage a total of $545 million in active domestic midcap equity portfolios.
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Anne Arundel County taps Dimensional for emerging markets equities
Anne Arundel County Retirement & Pension System hired Dimensional to run $68 million in emerging markets equities.
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The scarcity of income: A 'Hobson's choice'Upending the asset classes of the world in search of income has led to a dilemma. Should one pursue rock-bottom-yielding, “risk free” sovereign debt? Or have developed market monetary policies left little alternative but for investors to seek higher income-paying “riskier” assets?
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Ohio Public Employees picks 6 to run $1.1 billion in overseas equities
Ohio Public Employees' Retirement System hired six managers to run a total of $1.1 billion in active international developed and emerging markets equities.
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Plymouth Contributory Retirement System looking for large-cap equity manager
Plymouth (Mass.) Contributory Retirement System is searching for an active domestic large-cap value equity manager to run $5 million.
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Milwaukee County Employees on lookout for passive international equity
Milwaukee County Employees' Retirement System is searching for a passive international equity manager to run $94 million.