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CalPERS’ infrastructure consultant cuts fees

CalPERS has appointed a lead infrastructure consultant from its list of four shortlisted candidates that included Meketa Investment Group, Pension Consulting Alliance, RV Kuhns and Wilshire, with the appointed consultant offering a reduced fee structure as part of its contract.

Amanda WhiteDecember 15, 2009

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CalPERS measures liqudity levels

About half of the $201 billion in assets managed by CalPERS is available to liquidate within 90 days according to a new total fund liquidity assessment to be presented to the investment committee as part of the quarterly risk management update, which also shows the fund to have a total leverage of 19 per […]

Amanda WhiteDecember 9, 2009

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CalPERS backs internal, external FI managers amid liquidity ‘conundrum’

After missing the strong rally in the US high yield debt market, the $201.3 billion CalPERS’ global fixed income program, which manages about a quarter of the fund’s assets, has extended its mandates with external managers and will continue actively managing its US debt portfolio internally.

SIMON MUMMENovember 25, 2009

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CalPERS gives external managers one more year, pending review

CalPERS has extended the mandates of its external global equities managers by one year to enable staff to complete the asset class review, which will produce a recommendation about the role of external managers in the portfolio.

Amanda WhiteNovember 19, 2009

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CalPERS reviews consultant requirements as it goes to tender

CalPERS has expanded the scope of services required by its primary pension consultant, including the provision of more strategic advice and better communication between board and staff, as part of an RFP for a general consultant to be released in December. The contract with Wilshire Associates, the fund’s consultant since 1983, is due to expire […]

Amanda WhiteNovember 18, 2009

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P8 told to cut developing world’s carbon

Gareth Thomas, Minister of State with the Department for International Development in the United Kingdom, has urged pension funds to help boost private funding for low carbon investments in the developing world, calling on the group of investors at the P8 Summit to consider potential public financing mechanisms emerging from the private sector, including advanced […]

Amanda WhiteNovember 4, 2009

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