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Teacher Plan Investments Jump In Value

Buoyed by soaring stock markets, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System’s investments gained $4.5 billion in value last fiscal year, the system’s investment consultant reported on Monday.

09.28.21
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Divest Princeton Sit-In Calls For Full Fossil Fuel Divestment

Students gave speeches, painted signs, and sat on blankets doing homework during the event, which lasted four hours. Many of them were local high schoolers skipping class to attend.

09.28.21
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Northern Trust Asset Management’s FlexShares Launches Emerging Markets Climate-Focused ETFs In Europe

The strategies will utilize Northern Trust Asset Management’s Quality factor scoring in an effort to identify companies that exhibit strength in profitability, management expertise and cash flow while also maximizing the portfolio’s ESG exposure and reducing its carbon footprint.

09.27.21
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Challenges In The Bond Market And The Benefits Of Fixed-Income ETFs

Natacha Blackman, iShares fixed Income Product Strategy, BlackRock and Smadar Shulman, Managing Director, Indices, IHS Markit share their views on the bond market and the advantages of fixed-income ETFs.

09.27.21
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Quants Are Taking Over The World Of Bonds In A Big Invesco Poll

The quant revolution in fixed-income is here at long last, if the latest Invesco Ltd. poll is anything to go by.

09.27.21
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Markets Will Bounce Back Big Time, Says Top Advisor Wes Moss

The managing partner of $3.8 billion Capital Investment Advisors says businesses will soar once the economy sheds its “Covid weight,” and reveals the secrets of his educational content empire.

09.27.21
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N.M. Pension Fund Dealing With Turnover At The Top

Search for director relaunched after unease with earlier process.

09.27.21
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Latest PSERS Development: SEC Probes Big Pa. Pension Fund, Asking About ‘Compensation And Gifts’ To Staff

The FBI and federal prosecutors launched a criminal probe of the $70 billion PSERS plan in March after the fund’s board revealed doubts about the figure it endorsed for financial results in December.

09.27.21
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State Pensions Reach Highest Funded Level in 13 Years

US public employee pension plans are projected to be more than 80% funded on average.

09.24.21
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Wilshire Marks Next Chapter In Expansion Story With Global Rebrand

Modernized brand reflects the firm’s historied client-first approach to solving complex problems and vision to help build a better future.

09.23.21