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Christine Williamson

Christine Williamson is a senior reporter at sister publication Pensions & Investments with a focus on money management and hedge funds. She tweets at: @Williamson_PI

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  • News
  • March 6, 2000

Stable value, junk bond managers rise to the top

Stable value managers made it to the top of the charts among commingled bond fund managers last quarter,…

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Investing in a brighter shade of green

Does a company’s environmental record relate directly to its financial performance? Officials at the $120 million Wallace Global…

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Brinson a prisoner of the value style

Gary Brinson, one of the world’s most influential voices in investment management, is suffering through a long, sharp…

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  • News
  • November 15, 1999

Managers didn’t toss stock out the Window

In the months before federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared Microsoft a “monopoly power,” everyone from Silicon Valley…

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IT’S A GREAT TIME TO BE AN INDEXER: WHAT DO YOU BID FOR 12 NERDS?

Quantitative and passive managers and support staff, once considered the geeks and bores of the money management world,…

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WHILE THE GOOD TIMES ROLL ON, JITTERY MANAGERS PLAN FOR BAD: BOY, DO THEY WORRY ABOUT MEAN REVERSION

These days, money management executives are more worried about their own markets contracting than about the cyclical nature…

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IN PERFORMANCE TERMS, SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: TEENIEST 25% OF FUNDS MORE APT TO TOP PEERS

When it comes to predicting mutual fund performance quantitatively, only one criterion — fund size –really counts. For…

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WHOLE LOTTA SHAKING GOING’ ON AS LIPPER ALTERS FUND CATEGORIES: RATER CHANGES SYSTEM, VALUE OFFERINGS BENEFIT AND GIANTS LOSE A STEP

Benign on the surface, Lipper Inc.’s reclassification of domestic stock mutual funds will send shock waves through mutual…

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TIAA CREF LIKES WHAT IT SEES OF NEW PROFIT-MAKING WORLD: FUND PUSH TAKES AIM AT FEE- BASED PLANNERS

Top managers at the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund have had an attitude…

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FEELING’S NOT MUTUAL FOR BIG 401(K) PLANS: SURPRISE, SURPRISE: SOME ARE DITCHING RETAIL FUNDS FOR LOWER-COST OPTIONS

Sponsors of big 401(k) plans are quietly moving away from mutual funds as the investment of choice. And,…