Remove Investment Banking Remove Pension Funds Remove Stock Market
article thumbnail

Here's Why 1 Investment Bank Says Blackstone Just Hit a "Major Milestone"

The Motley Fool

The addition to the S&P 500 is a significant accomplishment, since the index is one of the most common benchmarks for measuring the stock market's performance. Morgan Stanley said its addition to the index was "a major milestone" that could lay a foundation for other companies like it. Here's why this news is a big deal.

article thumbnail

OMERS Names New Head of Infrastructure, Exits European Venture Capital

Pension Pulse

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based billion ($3.72

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Are Insurance Companies Safe?

Tucker Advisors

Shortly after The Great Recession began unraveling in 2008, many people feared insurance companies would suffer the same fate as investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, Wachovia and Washington Mutual. After all, no one could have predicted those banks would fail, either.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Michael Fisch

The Big Picture

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.

article thumbnail

A Discussion With Blake Hutcheson and Jonathan Simmons on OMERS' Mid-Year Results

Pension Pulse

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports OMERS reports steady gains at mid-year mark in shift to bonds, credit: Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System relied on steady returns from private assets, tailwinds from strong stock markets and a resilient U.S. per cent on their investments. dollar to earn a 4.4-per-cent

article thumbnail

Transcript: Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. So I was really investment banking. What was that experience like? What was your trading career like?

article thumbnail

Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

It was between corporate law and investment banking. KLINSKY: You know, and what we were doing was basically advising Goldman clients how to take their own family businesses back off the stock market. I did work on the very first principal investment that Goldman ever did. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah.