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MARCH 10, 2010
Pension Funds: The New Black for the FDIC; Goldman Sued, Again; OMERS Division Severely Underperforms

Hear Nassim Taleb speak at the ai5000 Chief Investment Officer Summit . May 20 & 21, New York City. 2010-03-11 FDIC Asks Pension Funds to Step In As the FDIC seeks cash, pension funds may be asked to help foot the bill to rescue the banking system. Robert X. Cringely: All Bets Are Off Part

MARCH 8, 2010
Review: Michael Lewis’ Big Short; Oxford Slams Yale Model; Funds Consider Risk Parity

Hear Nassim Taleb speak at the ai5000 Chief Investment Officer Summit . May 20 & 21, New York City. 2010-03-09 So Two Guys Walk Into a Subprime Conference in Vegas... Michael Lewis, it seems, has an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time. At a formal dinner in 1984, he was

MARCH 4, 2010
Asian SWFs Modify Strategy; Hermes Seeks Investors; PIMCO's Mohamed El-Erian Discusses a New Normal

Share ideas with other asset owners and famed financial guru NASSIM TALEB at ai5000’s conference series, beginning MAY 20 & 21 in New York City. To see if you qualify for these Chief Investment Officer Summits – open to key decision-makers at large endowments & foundations, nuclear decommissioning & he

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MARCH 1, 2010
Opportunity in Asia; CalPERS Considers Rate-of-Return Cut; Hedge Fund Rules to Prevent Secrecy

Share ideas with other asset owners and famed financial guru NASSIM TALEB at ai5000’s conference series, beginning MAY 20 & 21 in New York City. To see if you qualify for these Chief Investment Officer Summits – open to key decision-makers at large endowments & foundations, nuclear decommissioning &

FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Nassim Taleb to Head ai5000 Conference; AP3 Shifts Focus

2010-02-24 Insult and Intrigue at the World's Largest Foundation In January 2007, the Los Angeles Times launched an expository tirade against what many considered to be the most benevolent philanthropists of our—or any—generation: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. "Using the most recent data available,"

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Protect. Perform. Provide.

What is happening at the Wake Forest endowment also is happening in Boston, New Haven, Palo Alto, and Philadelphia and Ithaca. The age of the outsized and leveraged endowment return is over. Instead, Wake Forest’s Jim Dunn’s ethos will be echoed around the endowment space: protect, perform, provide. Ignoring the raison d’être of university capital—to, in times both good and bad, provide enough money to build the school’s hard and soft assets—will no longer be acceptable. Building walls between endowment investment professionals and university faculty will no longer suffice. What will suffice—be required, even—is a return to basics. Jim Dunn surely is. Others would be well advised to follow.

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