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CalPERS increasing emerging manager exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... 2020. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) told the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University last week that from July 2017 it will seek investment proposals from eligible mid-size external investment managers. CalPERS ...

FEATURE: Beyond Beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... traditional market cap weighted methodology. Everything else about the term smart beta seems problematic. Stanford University professor Bill Sharpe, who won a Nobel Prize for defining the concepts of beta and alpha, famously said that the notion of smart ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The fossil fuel divestment push is gathering pace, this time with 295 faculty members of Stanford University in the US writing to its board of trustees asking them to divest its $25 billion endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University ...

Vanguard appoints APAC senior economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Before that she worked an economist and head of Greater China research at JP Morgan. She holds a PhD from Stanford University. Asia-Pacific head of ISG Jeffrey Johnson said, "It is great to be able to welcome Dr Wang to the team. We look forward to tapping ...

Fraser and Hewson support ANU's right to divest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... the approach of a growing number of investors around the world including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Stanford University. The decision is also consistent with the views of 82% of ANU students and a number of staff." The majority of signatories ...

Fund member admin in spotlight at super forum

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... of the way many super funds operate. Among the speakers will be Robert Leeson, professor of economics from Stanford University in California, Kyle Ringrose, head of investment operations at QSuper, and Pierre Jond, managing director at BNP Paribas, Australia ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... assets, followed by Yale University with US$19.3 billion, University of Texas System with US$18.3 billion, and Stanford University and Princeton University both with US$17.0 billion in endowment fund assets.

Goldman Sachs defends reputation after scathing NY Times op-ed

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... making money," he continued. Smith, who started out at Goldman Sachs on a summer internship while studying at Stanford University and spent 10 years in the New York office before moving to London, pointed the finger directly at chief executive Lloyd ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The $27 billion Stanford University endowment fund has slashed and frozen salaries, trimmed staff numbers and tightened its budget as its portfolio shrinks by 25 per cent. In a recent media statement, Stanford said it planned to cut close to $156 million ...
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