Chicago Public School Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund has issued an RFI for managers to run up to $400 million total in passive core fixed income.

State of Wisconsin Investment Board has invested or committed a total of $940 million in hedge funds, real estate and private equity in the three months ended Sept. 30, a report shows.

For William Blair Investment Management LLC, the key elements in building a global investment management firm are its people and its corporate culture promoting teamwork that is entrepreneurial, collaborative and collegial. The Chicago-based firm, a four-time winner in Pensions & Investments' Best Places to Work in Money Management survey, embraces meritocracy, “encouraging people to put forward their best” and compensating them well for doing so, said John R. Ettelson, president and CEO.

Getting its corporate arms around a U.S. institutional investment-related workforce of 2,095 to promote a culture of putting clients first, while trying to balance the professional development and personal lifestyle of employees is a challenge BlackRock Inc. embraces.

Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System authorized or is considering searches in four separate asset classes that could involve upward of $1.3 billion in assets total over the next year.

Wells Fargo & Co. will separate the chairman and CEO roles, a move adopted after the Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds and four other institutional investors jointly filed a shareholder proposal calling for the company to adopt such a board leadership structure.

Johnson Controls Inc. expects to contribute $311 million to its defined benefit plans in its current fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, 2017, up 127% from the previous fiscal year.

Investment consultants face challenges as bearers of bad news in assisting asset-owner clients grappling with lower capital market expectations that are pushing them to extend risk exposures to reach assumed returns.

The CFA Institute is bolstering the environmental, social, governance curriculum in its Chartered Financial Analyst examinations.

U.S.-domiciled assets under management invested under environmental, social and governance factors totaled $8.72 trillion at the start of 2016, a 32.7% increase from the start of 2014, according to a report from the US SIF Foundation released Monday.

Principal Global Investors ranked first among 30 of the largest investment managers in casting proxy votes to align with climate-risk mitigation issues at companies with large carbon footprints in the oil and gas and utility sectors, said a report from 50/50 Climate Project released Wednesday.

Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System and four other state systems are searching for a firm to provide divestment services to comply with a state statute prohibiting investment in companies engaged in boycotts against Israel.

Florida State Board of Administration, Tallahassee, committed $687 million to funds of six managers.

Florida Retirement System lowered its long-term assumed rate of return to 7.6% from 7.65%.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday proposed rule changes to require so-called universal proxy-voting cards that would include the names of all management and dissident nominees to corporate of boards of directors.

Two U.S.-based academics — Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom — were named co-winners of the 2016 Nobel prize in economics for their pioneering and separate research on contract theory that includes influencing corporate governance and shedding light on setting CEO performance-based pay.

The five New York City pension funds called on Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Starbucks Corp. and 12 other companies to disclose details about their supplier diversity programs, said a news release Thursday from Scott M. Stringer, New York City comptroller who oversees the assets of the pension funds.