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Aaron M. Cunningham

Director of Research & Analytics

[email protected]

916-841-7893

Aaron is responsible for developing and overseeing the Research Center and P&IQ. He joined P&I in 2008 as data editor, where he developed graphic content and analysis. Aaron has a B.S. in Business Administration, finance concentration, from Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he graduated summa cum laude. He also has a M.S. in Accountancy from Loyola University Chicago, where he graduated with High Dean's Honors. He obtained the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation in 2010.

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2018 money manager data available

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 to launch new databases

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.
Hal, the pres tweeted so rebalance my K

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.

P&I 1,000 assets top $11 trillion

With strong market returns for the year ended Sept. 30, assets of the 1,000 largest U.S. retirement plans rose to another all-time high.
ClearBridge Investments

At ClearBridge Investments, the manager is always following best-in-class companies to see how it can improve.
Q2 2018 searches and hires overview report

Search activity for the second quarter of 2018 increased 1.7% from the prior quarter, and 22.7% from the second quarter of 2017. There were 21 domestic equity searches up sparply from the period a year ago. This included Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites' $4.8 billion in U.S. equity searches. Contrastingly, global equity searches were down more 50% year over year.

Money manager M&A up 10% in quarter

Money manager M&A activity in the first quarter increased about 10% from the previous quarter.
P&I expands coverage of British DB data

P&I's Research Center now includes data, including performance, on U.K. pension plans.
P&I 1,000 survey takes deep dive into largest plan sponsors

The 44th Pensions & Investments' special report on U.S. retirement assets illuminates investing trends of the nation's largest plan sponsors. With strong market returns for the year ended Sept. 30, 2017, assets of the 1,000 largest U.S. retirement plan sponsors increased to an all-time high. Total assets increased to $10.326 trillion, up 10% from a year earlier. Defined contribution assets increased significantly faster than defined benefit assets.
Vulcan Value Partners
Changing post-recession landscape has put pension risk transfers in spotlight

A confluence of macroeconomic factors and a profound shift in the goals of corporations since the global financial crisis have dramatically accelerated corporate plan sponsors shifting defined benefit pension risk off their balance sheet through pension risk transfers.
Core database updates accomplished with P&I Research Center version 2.3.5

Pensions & Investments recently released Research Center version 2.3.5. This update contains major enhancements to the database's back-end architecture.
2016 money manager data available; factor-based and ESG AUM data added

Money manager data as of Dec. 31, 2016, are now available in the Pensions & Investments Research Center. Total assets under management increased 9.1% to $58.77 trillion.
Q1 2017 searches and hires overview

In hiring activity, $42.9 billion was at stake, up 19.9% from the previous quarter and 0.8% from the first quarter of 2016. Legal & General Investment Management received $2.5 billion for its Future World Fund from HSBC Bank (U.K.) Pension Scheme.

Manager M&A boom in Q1

Money manager M&A activity in the first quarter increased almost 40% from the previous quarter, with assets involved in the transactions totaling $949.1 billion. Assets rose almost 300% from the year-earlier quarter.