James Comtois

After seeing big increases in lower middle market co-investments in 2020 and 2021, Cambridge Associates is now witnessing a similar surge in late-stage venture capital deals.

After building the Illinois Police Officers' Pension Investment Fund from scratch since joining in May 2021 as the plan's debut investment chief, Kent Custer is ready to make sizeable investments in private markets and active international equities—all while remaining “very prudent and risk aware.”

Goldman Sachs' latest OCIO wins highlight that even some companies with the most sophisticated and well-resourced pensions are concluding that managing retirement assets in-house is no longer worth the cost and complexity.

Leslie Lenzo has left the Hershey Trust Company to launch her own independent consulting practice.

Asset managers are sharply increasing their spending on AI, but bigger budgets aren't always translating into results. According to a new survey commissioned by Clearwater Analytics, firms with higher quality data are gaining the most when it comes to risk management, reporting, and analysis.

After the State of Michigan Retirement Systems sold its long-held stake in multifamily developer Simpson Housing to the Atlanta-based Domain Capital Group in March, its new owners are looking to expand the 75-year-old company's leadership, offering, and platform.

North Carolina’s retirement system is building on its decade-long relationship with Barings to target $2.1 billion in real estate debt opportunities at a time when large allocators are increasingly turning to specialist managers to find niche opportunities, particularly overseas.

As more municipalities turn to private capital to modernize their aging infrastructure, investors like Marcus Siezing, CIO and co-president of the Dillon Trust Company, are increasingly targeting water-related investments, from utilities to efficiency technologies to land rights—despite it being “a politically sensitive area to make money in.”

As the outsourced chief investment officer industry expands, large OCIO providers like BlackRock are going after healthcare systems, whose portfolios have unpredictable cash needs and growing interest in private markets. OCIOs are expected to manage $5.6 trillion in assets in three years.

Poorly timed fund trades have cost investors nearly $4 trillion over the past decade, according to new research from Morningstar.In tracking the average dollar invested in nearly 23,000 U.S. open-end funds and exchange-traded funds, Morningstar found the average dollar invested in these funds earned 8.7 percent per year for the 10 years ended 2025—1.2 percentage points less than these funds’ 9.9 percent average annual total return over the same period.