News Brief
Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, recently criticized the Fed’s handling of the economic situation in the United States. He has expressed his concern about stagflation and rampant inflation, which is partially due to rising oil and food prices...more...
On June 26th, Pennsylvania Treasurer Robin L. Weissman released information about the Treasury Opportunity Fund, which is a fund-of-funds investment program that will seek to invest in Pennsylvania-based, minority, or emerging managers...more...
The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) Board of Trustees approved many investment actions at its June board meeting. The trustees made changes to the PSERS’ asset allocation, which accommodated the hiring of two emerging market debt managers...more...
The South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission has arranged a $1.5 billion alternative investment partnership with Goldman Sachs Asset Management as of Thursday, June 20...more...
This Week
Late last month, the New York City Council began looking into a revision of the unincorporated business tax, paving the way toward requiring hedge fund and private equity fund partners to pay a city tax...more...
"After eight years as a mortgage derivatives specialist on Wall Street at Prudential and Lehman Brothers, I decided to make a career change and went to work as a hedge fund marketer"...more...
Past Features
Investors, managers, and companies are gravitating toward Asia from all angles. Benefiting from a growth rate of nine percent in 2007, China is leading the latest Asian economic boom; its tremendous growth, and the expected potential for sustained opportunities, is creating a residual effect that has industry-and savvy emerging managers-looking eastward...more...
Inflation is everywhere. Not just at the petrol pump, at the supermarket, or in inflation features on the front pages of newspapers, these worries are also growing amidst policy makers and consumers, leading to concerns being voiced ever more loudly...more...
Natural resource investing has been a lucrative area for investments over the past decade and it appears as though this trend will continue through the future...more...