As more and more pension funds invest in toll roads, electricity and telecommunication projects, among others, infrastructure becomes an increasingly popular alternative asset. Corporations and pension funds mainly in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom have been driving the trend and investing globally via funds, emerging markets stocks or direct investments...more...

Gwendolyn Butler, Partner and Chief Marketing Officer of Capri Capital Partners LLC, drew upon her 30 years of institutional lending and investment management experience to explain how emerging managers can recognize and gain access to the key decision makers at large pension funds...more...

As the number of hedge funds swells to $2 trillion under management, and their global transactions multiply, the opportunity for money laundering increases in the same way it has for banks...more...

As the number of hedge funds swells to over $ 2 trillion, investors flock to the largest few. They feel comfort gravitating to traditional names, in the same way money managers feel safe investing in IBM stock—“everyone does it.”...more...

Seeking to tap into the growing interest among institutional investors in alternative investments, Boston based MFS Investment Management has set up a new subsidiary, Four Pillars Capital Inc., whose business strategy will be to provide significant seed and expansion capital to emerging hedge fund managers...more...

In an effort to enhance returns and expand manager diversity, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced he is increasing private equity commitments to minority and women owned emerging managers to $1 billion over the next several years...more...

PIPEs-private investments into public entities – are becoming an increasingly viable instrument in the alternatives space. Public companies both large and small are looking to the speedy financing benefits of these complex and illiquid vehicles, while both high net worth and institutional investors recognize the attractive risk/return prospects which PIPEs offer...more...

Sierra Pacific Resources, a holding company for Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific Power, has named Callan Associates as their new consultant. The search will replace Wurts and Associates Institutional Investment Consultants as the main consultant for the firm...more...