This month’s news briefs include updates from the New York State Common Retirement Fund as well as GCM Grosvenor.
Miguel Thames has been named the new president and ceo of the National Association of Securities Professionals.
The alliance will enable alternatives investment manager Preserver to leverage the substantial resources of Channing Alternatives, a newly formed affiliate of Channing Capital Management.
The diversity of the approximately $11.6 billion endowment at DUMAC, the investment management arm of Duke University, remains static year-over-year at 42.4% of the portfolio.
Since beginning its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in earnest nearly a decade ago, Commonfund has made significant progress in having increased diverse manager hires in client portfolios to 45 firms from 10, while also having improved diversity representation in its workforce.
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new Investment Advisers Act rules (“Rules”) on Aug. 23 that aim to protect investors in private funds by imposing restrictions on and requiring transparency into certain adviser practices.
The Marguerite Casey Foundation has added several diverse-owned managers to its approximately $825 million portfolio since making a commitment to invest with a racial equity lens earlier this year.
The C$424 ($306.5) billion Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec intends to more than double the size of its assets with Québec external managers.
The $1.1 billion City of Kansas City (Mo.) Employees Retirement System agreed to shift its emerging manager program to a U.S. small-cap equity mandate from a U.S. all-cap equity mandate.
