Even More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”
It has taken three posts to unpack all the lies that John Cole told CalPERS’ board in December about its new private equity scheme.
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Even Endowments Not Beating Vanguard….So What Good Are Those High Fee Private Equity and Hedge Funds?
Even endowments, the supposed best of best among diversified investors, are finding that their old alternative investment mojo isn’t working these days.
Read more...Reining in Leveraged Lending
Yves here. This article pre-supposes that readers understand that most leveraged lending is taking place as a result of private equity, via two routes. First, private equity funds use a great deal of borrowed money when buying companies. One of the biggest sources is so-called leveraged loans, which are normally originally made by banks, but […]
Read more...More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”
More on how CalPERS will get its pockets picked in its newfangled private equity scheme.
Read more...Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?
CalPERS is at it again…this time in the form of its private equity architect John Cole showing the world that he is way over his head.
Read more...Private Equity Expert Dr. Ashby Monk Repudiates CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Private Equity Scheme During and Immediately After Presentation at CalPERS
CalPERS can’t even get friendly private equity experts to back Marcie Frost’s hare-brained scheme.
Read more...CalPERS Star Hire Elisabeth Bourqui Resigns Suddenly After Only Eight Months, an Indictment of CEO Marcie Frost; Insiders Speculate Private Equity Was the Cause
CalPERS loses a highly qualified top executive. CEO Marcie Frost’s fingerprints are all over the departure, in a bad way.
Read more...CalPERS’ Private Equity “Fire, Aim, Ready”: Railroading Board by Screening Candidates Before Scheme Approved; Seeking to be Victimized Again by Silver Lake Partners
Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.
Read more...CalPERS’ Bill Slaton (Again) Embarrasses Himself and the CalPERS Board
CalPERS board member Bill Slaton demonstrates why he needs to go sooner rather than later.
Read more...CalPERS Admits Its New Private Equity Funds Will Dilute Returns, Seeks to Change Benchmark to Hide That; Presents Other Questionable Claims as Top Investors Underperform Due to “Alternative Investments”
Awfully late in the game, CalPERS finally tries to ‘splain its private equity plans. The giant fund only digs its hole deeper.
Read more...Our New York Magazine Article: “‘Alpha Wolves in the Henhouse’: California’s Multibillion-Dollar Private-Equity Boondoggle”
Putting CalPERS under the hot lights for its questionable private equity plans.
Read more...JJ Jelincic: CalPERS’ New Private Equity Model – What’s the Payoff?
CalPERS claims for its private equity “new business model” don’t add up. That suggests there are other motives.
Read more...Pathbreaking Fiduciary Duty Suit Against KKR/Prisma, Blackstone, PAAMCO, and Others to Proceed
An important fiduciary duty lawsuit against some of the biggest names in the hedge fund and private equity worlds is moving forward. If the plaintiffs win, it could change the balance of power between investors and fund managers.
Read more...CalPERS PR Messaging on Private Equity Backfiring as Lack of Justification, Flailing About, Become Obvious
CalPERS looks not just reckless but also foolish as it keeps rejiggering a dubious private equity scheme that it presented as ready to go months ago.
Read more...Post Office Privatization Thrust Awaits (Stalled) Publication of Trump Task Force Report
The Post Office, its Universal Service Obligation, privatization efforts, how (and possibly why) those efforts are stalled.
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