Principal Global Investors LLC's corporate culture embraces four guideposts for building its business and inspiring its professional staff.

Hugues Langlois, assistant professor at business school HEC Paris, was awarded the $5,000 Crowell Prize for his paper, “Asset Pricing with Return Asymmetries: Theory and Tests.”

Geeta B. Aiyer, president and founder of Boston Common Asset Management LLC, was awarded the Joan Bavaria Award for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets.

More emphasis on corporate defined contribution plans is part of the growth strategy of Calvert Investments Inc. under new President and CEO John Streur.

Brian M. Washkowiak joined Fairpointe Capital as portfolio manager, a new position.

Andrew M. Carter — the father of active bond management who also created the first bond index fund and was considered “one of the finest math guys” in fixed income — built a clientele of some of the biggest corporate pension funds and worked at leading fixed-income investment advisory companies as well as founding two of his own money management firms.

Mamadou-Abou Sarr was named global head of ESG investing at Northern Trust Asset Management.

Rodney N. Sullivan joined AQR Capital Management as vice president, leading the firm's outreach program to engage clients and prospects with the firm's research ideas.

Warren Woo was terminated as managing director of Monroe Capital over “serious violations of company policies relating to confidentiality and appropriate use of information systems,” Theodore L. Koenig, president and CEO of Monroe Capital, said in a statement.

Greg Robinson was named general partner of 4490 Ventures, a newly formed venture capital fund created by the $101.3 billion State of Wisconsin Investment Board and the $2.5 billion Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that is focused on seed and early stage investments primarily in Wisconsin information technology companies.

For Mellody Hobson, it was a brief encounter with Nelson Mandela.

Aberdeen Asset Management shareholders on Thursday by overwhelming margins voted in support of the company's executive pay program and the election of all directors, despite some pension fund opposition.

Douglas T. Breeden was named winner of the 2013 IAQF/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award.

Working at Baird Asset Management is as much about molding character as about delivering client objectives, according to Mary Ellen Stanek, managing director and chief investment officer, and Paul C. Purcell, chairman and CEO of parent Robert W. Baird & Co.

At Northern Trust Asset Management, the mantra is service, integrity and expertise, said Stephen N. Potter, president.

Gilbert L. Beebower, a pioneer in institutional investment consulting, leaves a legacy in research that includes a groundbreaking study he co-authored establishing the primacy of asset allocation indetermining portfolio performance.

A new book, “The World's 99 Greatest Investors: the Secret of Success,” identifies the best, including deceased as well as those currently active in managing money. As Magnus Angenfelt, author of the book, published by Roos & Tegner AB in Malmo, Sweden, writes, his objective “has been to compile a list of those who have produced the highest absolute returns, regardless of investment style.”

Governance for Owners and Engaged Capital formed a venture to introduce a global shareholder activist investment strategy and joint global marketing effort.