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Wall Street Journal: Infrastructure Investors Get Creative as Cash Pile Grows

NEPC's Andrew Brett was featured in the Wall Street Journal's article, "Infrastructure Investors Get Creative as Cash Pile Grows."

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Pensions & Investments: Insurers Forced to Expand Their Horizons

Pensions & Investment's article, "Insurers Forced to Expand Their Horizons" included comments from Cathy Konicki, CFA, CAIA, Partner. Institutional asset owners outside the retirement plan landscape continue to seek new sources of alpha in alternative investments, industry experts say.

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Pensions & Investments: Hedge funds making progress, but slow to adopt ESG

 

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Pensions & Investments: Investors Still Stalwart Despite 2018 Setback

Institutional investors are taking a hard look at their alternative risk premium strategies after poor performance in 2018.

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Bloomberg: Harvard Piles Into Hedge Funds as New Chief Overhauls Endowment

Harvard University's N.P. "Narv" Narvekar is doubling down on an investment that has fallen out of fashion: hedge funds.

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CNN Business: When it makes sense to own more bonds than stocks

Unless you are extremely risk averse or depend on a steady stream of income for your daily expenses then it may not make sense to buy bonds instead of stocks. The stock market historically outperforms bonds over the long run.

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Chief Investment Officer: San Antonio Fire and Police Wants More Private Investments

The $2.8 billion San Antonio Fire and Police Fund's board aims to beef up its investments in private markets. At a recent meeting, consulting firm NEPC presented the board a scenario for upping its presence in this arena, according to its minutes. The board unanimously accepted the proposal to invest $60 million this year for private equity, $45 million for private debt, and $25 million for real assets. Also, it will seek to enlist a private equity co-investment fund.

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Chief Investment Officer: Endowments Increasingly Dour About Economy

The number of endowments and foundations that believe the economy has worsened, and see a slowdown as their biggest long-term threat, has tripled over the past year, according to a survey from investment consulting firm NEPC.

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The Wall Street Journal: MoneyBeat: WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing

The Federal Reserve moved to make it easier for private-equity funds and other investors to own large stakes in banks without triggering its oversight, in a plan that could also make it easier for financial technology startups to obtain investment cash.

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Pensions & Investments: Endowments, foundations worried about economic slowdown — NEPC survey

A slowdown in global economic growth is the biggest worry for endowments and foundations this year, according to NEPC's Endowments & Foundations Survey released Tuesday.

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