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Bloomberg, Other Publications Criticize CalPERS’ Leverage on Leverage Plan to Boost Returns While Missing Additional Types of Borrowing

CalPERS, which has lagged nearly all other public pension funds’ performance, is doubling down on failure by resorting to leverage.

Endowments’ Money Management Destroying Value Demonstrates Economic Drain of Asset Management Business

How endowments, the supposedly best and brightest fiduciaries, are destroying value.

Satyajit Das: Fintech’s ‘Flim-Flam’ Innovation Games

Not surprisingly, fintech looks like a variety of old scams in new bottles.

Finance Group Fails To Deliver at COP26

Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.

An Increase in Interest Rates Would Be An Act of Class Warfare

While increasing interest rates to combat this inflation is bone-headed, the Fed has long wanted to be out of super low rate terrain.

CalPERS Continues to Violate Law Via Secret Board Discussions; Upcoming Monday Illegal Secret Placement Agent Review Raises Concerns About Bribery

A previous CalPERS CEO went to prison for taking bribes. CalPERS is now illegally hiding the type of fees that generated those bribes.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler, Ever So Politely, Signals Intent to Cut Private Equity Grifting Way Back

SEC chair Gary Gensler puts private equity in his crosshairs. Will he fire?

Emergency Room Doctors’ Lobbyist Admits to Large-Scale Medicare Billing Fraud by Members, Criminal Corporate Practice of Medicine by PE Firms

Private equtiy stealing from babies…um, oldsters….um, Medicare. Who’d have thunk it?

Smear Campaigns Work: Pro-Transparency Board Member Margaret Brown, Candidate Tiffany Emon-Moran, Both Lose CalPERS Board Election

The California public employees unions that have bizarrely made clear that they are firmly on the side of having CalPERS continue to be poorly run have gotten their way. Pro accountability, pro-transparency board member Margaret Brown, and Tiffany Emon-Moran, who was challenging incumbent and staunch staff David Miller, were both defeated in this year’s board […]

For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education

An in-depth study of how investors in charter schools loot the businesses, and students predictably lose out.

Direct Contracting Entities: The Latest Scam to Privatize Medicare

Direct Contracting Entities are another scam from the usual suspects. Please sign the petition at the end

Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts

An important new paper puts another big chink in private equity’s armor.

Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices

Private equity is doing yet more damage to heath care as it buys up primary care practices en masse.

Quelle Surprise! New Study Confirms that Public Pension Funds Use Flattering Benchmarks to Hide Failure to Beat Simple Indexing; CalPERS Is a Case Study

Documenting yet another way public pensions funds lie to themselves and their many constituencies about their performance.

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Bloomberg, Other Publications Criticize CalPERS’ Leverage on Leverage Plan to Boost Returns While Missing Additional Types of Borrowing

Endowments’ Money Management Destroying Value Demonstrates Economic Drain of Asset Management Business

Satyajit Das: Fintech’s ‘Flim-Flam’ Innovation Games

An Increase in Interest Rates Would Be An Act of Class Warfare

CalPERS Continues to Violate Law Via Secret Board Discussions; Upcoming Monday Illegal Secret Placement Agent Review Raises Concerns About Bribery

SEC Chair Gary Gensler, Ever So Politely, Signals Intent to Cut Private Equity Grifting Way Back

Emergency Room Doctors’ Lobbyist Admits to Large-Scale Medicare Billing Fraud by Members, Criminal Corporate Practice of Medicine by PE Firms

Smear Campaigns Work: Pro-Transparency Board Member Margaret Brown, Candidate Tiffany Emon-Moran, Both Lose CalPERS Board Election

For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education

Direct Contracting Entities: The Latest Scam to Privatize Medicare

Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts

Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices

Quelle Surprise! New Study Confirms that Public Pension Funds Use Flattering Benchmarks to Hide Failure to Beat Simple Indexing; CalPERS Is a Case Study

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