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Alternatives managers asked to help more with fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... years have seen investors become ever more vociferous," Preqin chief executive Mark O'Hare said. "In the year that saw CalPERS announce it is withdrawing from the hedge fund asset class due to complexity and cost, it is unsurprising that institutional ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... have also copped flak from the largest public pension fund in the US. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) ditched its hedge fund allocation "as part of an ongoing effort to reduce complexity and costs in its investment program." ...

Scale drove CalPERS hedge fund move

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Lack of hedge fund scale forced CalPERS to abandon the sector, not the inability of hedge funds to perform Last month the US$300 billion California public sector pension fund rattled global hedge fund managers when they announced they were cashing out ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... society as a whole," Signatories included the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper. Commonwealth Bank, AMP and Westpac all signed, as did UniSuper ...

Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... more than US$24 trillion - including the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper - have signed a statement in which they lay out some ways in ...

Mercer expands infrastructure team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... Pacific arm of the investment business. Billimoria joins Mercer from the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), where he was a portfolio manager specialising in infrastructure and forestland. Prior to that he held roles at AMP Capital ...

CalPERS awards $500m multi-asset mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... mandate to Standard Life Investments' top-performing multi-asset fund. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing US$500 million with the Edinburgh-based investment house. The Standard Life Global Absolute Return Strategies ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
The largest public pension fund in the US, CalPERS, has expressed its support for the US government's civil lawsuit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Rating Services. Early this month, the US Department of Justice sued the agency for fraud ...

CalPERS awards Citi $28bn in securities lending assets

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... agent, with the remainder of securities lending assets auctioned by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) awarded to other participating bidders and to eSecLending's discretionary lending program. "We are thrilled to have won these ...

AustralianSuper talks scale, further growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... super market, but we are not huge." Curtis said he recently spoke with the chief operating officer of US pension fund CalPERS who said that she didn't expect scale to kick in until they hit $500 billion, saying it was all a state of growth. "We think ...