Peers and colleagues said David Villa, CIO of the $145 billion State of Wisconsin Investment Board, was a leader in portfolio management.

David Villa, executive director and CIO of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, died Feb. 13, having served as fund CIO since 2006.

Kevin Dalmut, investment officer for the University of Iowa Center for Advancement's $1.1 billion endowment, has died.

Gerald D. Hines, founder and chairman of Houston-based real estate manager Hines, has died.

Ron Rawald, senior managing director and head of international real estate at Cerberus Capital Management, died over the weekend at age 56.

Ronnie Scott Brown, co-founder of Aberdeen Asset Management, has died at age 83.

Former Stanford Management Co. President and CEO John F. Powers has died at age 67.

David Reich, Hub International's national president of retirement and private wealth, died from a heart attack.

Arthur Samberg, the founder of Pequot Capital Management Inc., once the world's largest hedge fund firms, has died. He was 79.

Milbrey "Casey" Jones, a longtime institutional marketer in the institutional investing industry, died of cancer at age 78.

Sean M. Healey, executive co-chairman and former CEO of Affiliated Managers Group, died after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

John F. Casey, a longtime consultant and co-founder of several consulting firms, including Casey Quirk, died April 25 of a heart attack.

Sally Dungan, CIO of Tufts University's $2 billion endowment, has died.

Paul Purcell, chairman of the board and former president and CEO of Robert W. Baird & Co., died Feb. 28 of complications from cancer.

David G. Tittsworth, counsel in Ropes & Gray's investment management practice and former president and CEO of the IAA, has died. He was 66.

Charles W. Brady, Invesco's founder and former chairman and CEO, died in Atlanta at the age of 84 on Dec. 7.

Charles W. Brady, the founder and former chairman and CEO of Invesco, has died at age 84.

Donald Marron, the financier who led Paine Webber for 20 years until the retail brokerage's $16 billion sale to UBS in 2000, has died.

Paul A. Volcker, 92, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, died Sunday at his home in New York.

Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who broke the back of U.S. inflation in the 1980s, has died.

Don Valentine, 87, founder of venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and early investor in Atari and Apple Computer, has died.

T. Boone Pickens, the onetime Texas oilman who became a billionaire energy investor and pitchman for wind and natural-gas power, has died.

Jeffrey Tarrant, a leading hedge fund investor who backed managers including Bill Ackman and Marc Lasry before they were stars, has died.

Alexander Navab, former head of KKR's Americas private equity business and founder of private equity firm Navab Capital Partners, has died.

Martin Feldstein, a noted economist who served as the president of the National Bureau of Economic Research for nearly 30 years, has died.