Jean-Rene Giraud, founding CEO of Trackinsight, a global ETF analysis platform, died of a heart attack June 16.

Fayez Sarofim, the Egyptian-born Texas money manager known for his discerning taste in stocks and fine art, died at age 93.

Michael S. Falk, a partner at Focus Consulting Group, died more than two years after being diagnosed with ALS, his colleagues said.

George F. Keane, founder of Commonfund, has died at age 91, following a long illness.

Colleagues remember pioneering Yale University Chief Investment Officer David F. Swensen who died May 5 from cancer.

Richard H. Driehaus, founder and chairman of money manager Driehaus Capital Management and longtime philanthropist, has died at age 78.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

John B. Neff, a former managing partner of Wellington Management Co. and portfolio manager for Vanguard Group, died.