Renaissance Technologies is quietly enjoying its best year in recent memory. Although much attention has been paid to the firm’s crumbling asset base and the death of founder James Simons earlier this ...

As the outsourced chief investment officer industry expands, large OCIO providers like BlackRock are going after healthcare systems, whose portfolios have unpredictable cash needs and growing interest ...

When activist short seller Nate Anderson announced he was dissolving his firm, Hindenburg Research, just five days before the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, even the most hard-boiled ...

Replacing the founders of New York-based real estate manager Cohen & Steers was never going to be an easy task. When Martin Cohen and Robert Steers established the firm in 1986, they did so with the ...

The fund, which has approximately $300 million in assets, according to filings, is different from most competitors, many of which invest primarily in the biggest names that have come to dominate ...

If you were to ask most business school students to name the most sophisticated institutional investors in the world, few will say "insurance companies." And yet, insurers allocate trillions of ...

North Carolina’s retirement system is building on its decade-long relationship with Barings to target $2.1 billion in real estate debt and capital solutions opportunities at a time when large ...

As part of its plan to expand into private markets and insource more of its investment decisions, the New Hampshire Retirement System has appointed Danita Johnson as head of private markets. An NHRS ...

Savvy manager selection and strategic shifts in asset allocation led Harvard's $53.2 billion endowment to generate a 9.6 percent return in fiscal year 2024. In his annual letter to investors and the ...

While most endowments and foundations are working to ensure they have ample liquidity, The Dietrich Foundation is taking the opposite approach. Roughly 90 percent of its $1.6 billion portfolio is ...

Dorsal Capital Management, run by former SAC Capital technology guru Ryan Frick, is the rare TMT firm that lets its investors sleep soundly at night no matter market conditions.At least when it comes ...

Seligman Investments’ new venture capital arm has gotten off to a quick start.Seligman Ventures earlier this month made “a significant investment” in the first close of SambaNova’s $1 billion in ...