Christine Williamson

Senior Reporter, money management

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Christine is a senior reporter at Pensions & Investments whose business of money management beat includes traditional U.S. and Canadian money managers and hedge funds everywhere. She also covers U.S. pension funds, endowments and foundations. Christine joined P&I in 1988 as directory coordinator. She has a B.A. in English literature from Knox College.

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Recent Stories
Franklin terminates executive after Central Park incident

Franklin Templeton terminated its head of insurance investment solutions after a racially charged incident in New York's Central Park.

Texas Employees lowers assumed rate of return to 7%

Trustees of the $26.2 billion Texas Employees Retirement System approved lowering the system's assumed rate of return to 7% from 7.5%.

Christopher Donahue
COVID-19 puts manager assets into deep dive

Nearly all publicly traded managers saw their AUM decline in the first quarter, as the coronavirus outbreak roiled global markets.
TIAA, Nuveen expect low takeup on buyouts

TIAA is offering a voluntary separation package to 75% of eligible employees globally but expects uptake of 5% to 7%.
PNC reaps more than $14 billion in sale of BlackRock stake

PNC Financial Services Group completed the sale of most of its 22.4% stake in BlackRock, resulting in proceeds of about $14.4 billion.

PNC Financial to sell most of its stake in BlackRock

PNC Financial Services Group will sell most of its 22.4% stake in BlackRock and donate the remaining 500,000 shares to its charity arm.

Robert S. Shafir
Sculptor Capital assets fall 3.2% in quarter, up 3.4% for year

Sculptor Capital's AUM fell 3.2% in the quarter as net inflows of $555 million partially offset performance losses of $1.6 billion.
Texas Employees picks 2 new alts managers for real estate, private equity
Investcorp, Tages Group set up absolute-return joint venture

Investcorp and Tages Group take 50-50 stakes in absolute-return joint venture.
Alpha Capital Management launches OCIO indexes with Nasdaq

Alpha Capital Management launched a series of OCIO indexes based on anonymous returns and asset classes provided by OCIO managers.
James A. Neumann
Rocky market giving hedge funds a leg up for investors

Asset owners are reviewing hedge fund portfolio returns in the quarter and looking to invest opportunistically.
Some funds gain, others lose in first quarter

Hedge fund industry observers say the first quarter was a litmus test for managers, producing distinct winners and losers.
Citadel Data Open
Citadel's annual Data Open goes virtual in 2020

University-level data scientists competed remotely this year for cash and jobs from Citadel.
Chicago Equity Partners to shutter, return capital

Chicago Equity Partners is winding down its business, citing a lack of confidence in the current market structure.

Chicago Police weighing search for active U.S. value manager