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OCERS to consider manager terminations
By Arleen JacobiusThe board of the Orange County Employees Retirement System, Santa Ana, Calif., will consider whether to terminate Capital Guardian's $98 million active domestic large-cap value equity allocation and transfer the assets to BGI's Russell 1000 index fund.
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Hedge fund managers make it three quarters in a row of upside
Hedge fund managers retained their gains and posted respectable returns for the third straight quarter. All 22 of the hedge fund and fund-of-funds strategies tracked by Morningstar Inc. turned in positive average performance for the three months ended Sept. 30.
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Invesco Powershares CEO Bruce Bond stepping back
Bruce Bond is stepping down as chief executive of Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, the exchange-traded-fund provider he founded in 2003, and will be replaced by Ben Fulton.
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Bornhoft Group hires new partner
Thomas O'Donnell joined The Bornhoft Group as a partner, a new position that is part of an expansion of the managed futures specialist's institutional investor marketing effort.
By Christine Williamson3 sign on with Putnam's DC sales team
Chris Doucet, Alan Dumas and John Leeson joined Putnam Investments' defined contribution sales team.
By Douglas AppellAdolph to lead EMEA transition management
Chris Adolph was named Russell Investments' head of transition management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Managers contest change in oversight
Money managers are fighting legislation that would — for the first time — subject the roughly 4,000 firms associated with broker-dealers to regulation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
By Doug HalonenLong-only or hedge? It no longer matters
Institutional investors are gearing up to integrate hedge funds into their equity and fixed-income portfolios, part of a growing trend toward allocating assets based on their sources of return — alpha and beta.
By Christine WilliamsonHermes' latest boutique marks firm's push to gain U.S. clients
Hermes Fund Managers has lifted out a six-member global equity team from Fortis Investments in Boston as part of a bid to attract U.S. institutional clients.
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Aberdeen replaces Bramdean Asset
Aberdeen Asset Management is replacing Bramdean Asset Management as manager of Bramdean Alternatives' $183 million in assets.
By Drew CarterFRR picks 6 to run €4 billion in bonds
Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites, Paris, hired six managers to run a combined €4 billion ($6 billion) in euro-denominated inflation-linked bonds.
By Drew CarterMassMutual adds Protego, merges real estate managers
MassMutual is buying European real estate investment management firm Protego Real Estate Investors and will merge it with MassMutual's two existing real estate groups.
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