PRIM is looking for Long Duration US Treasury STRIPS Indexed Investment Management Services
| Page August 4, 2014 Dear Potential Provider: proposals from firms interested in providing Long Duration US Treasury STRIPS Indexed Investment Management Services. The Procurement Officer for this Re...
RFP RE Index Fund
The Winchester Contributory Retirement Board, a $100 million public pension fund, is soliciting proposals from firms interested in providing a passively managed real estate index fund....
MassMutual is Launching a Venture Capital Firm
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. is launching a venture capital firm to invest in financial technology startups that will help the company improve its primary insurance and investment business...
Ontario's Sovereign Fund Beats out Norway, Singapore for Piece of Blackstone Portfolio
Blackstone Group LP has agreed to sell five Boston-area high-rise office towers to a venture led by Canadian real-estate investor Oxford Properties Group for about $2.1 billion.
Is a vague job title to blame for the hot water Charlie Baker and General Catalyst are in?
On Friday, Baker was the focus of an investigation by PandoDaily‘s David Sirota (that is still ongoing) into what could be a violation of “pay to play” rules that center around a $10,000 contribution Baker made to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. The problem: Baker’s employer at the time of the donation was General Catalyst Partners, the local venture capital firm that also happens to have been awarded a $25 million state pension contract by New Jersey governor Chris Christie, of whom Baker has been an avid supporter.
University Endowments by State
This Massachusetts native is happy to report the bay state leads the nation in college endowment size -- the five MA universities in the top 50 come in at $48.96 billion. Texas ($34 billion), Califor...
The Top US University Endowments, Ranked
The usual suspects: Harvard, by a loooong shot, Yale, the UTs, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Texas A&M, U Michigan, Columbia, and Northwestern. Interestingly, though, Harvard has seen the smallest growth...
Boston's Tech/Biotec/Pharma Scene Pushing Commercial Real Estate Rents Sky High
Stuart Shiff, whose company Divco West manages more than $7 billion real estate assets, primarily in Northern California, Los Angeles and Austin, called Boston "a must-have market." Over the last two years, his firm has acquired buildings in Cambridge, the Financial District and the Seaport.
Fletcher Asset Management Under Inditement from Its Own Hedge Funds and MBTA Pension Fund
New York investment manager Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher Jr. is being sued by the MBTA Retirement Fund and some of his own hedge funds on accusations that he defrauded them of more than $50 million....
SAGE Theraputics Nabs $38 Million Series C from OrbiMed Advisors, EcoR1 Capital Management, Foresite Capital Management, Third Rock Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners
“We are impressed by SAGE’s focus on rare and orphan CNS diseases,” said Carl Gordon, Ph.D., CFA, general partner at OrbiMed.