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The 2019 Pensions & Investments money manager data, with an as of date of Dec. 31, 2018, are now live in the P&I Research Center.
Pensions & Investments will soon launch a new database to cover private funds closings, tracking back to 2010.Assets invested in private equity, credit strategies, real assets and real estate have soared over the past decade. The database will track large institutional funds with more than $1 billion in total commitments. This is the first database that will utilize P&I's new design of the Research Center, a project that provided more data points and increased analytics.
Defined contribution record keepers have begun to integrate with personal digital assistants. In Pensions & Investments' latest survey, six of 36 record keepers reported integration with a digital assistant. The record keepers with integration are some of the largest companies, including Fidelity Investments, TIAA-CREF and Alight Solutions. Voice-activated digital assistants can reach almost 40 million participants with more than $3.5 trillion in assets.
During the first quarter of 2019, 23 ERISA-related lawsuits have been filed and/or updated with 30 stories written. Seventy-nine stories were written on 65 ERISA cases in 2018. The involved parties either reached a settlement, filed an appeal or a court decision was made.
