David Snow

Wesley Ogburn, a portfolio manager in charge of hedge funds at the $22bn university endowment today submitted comments to the SEC in favour of maintaining the ability of placement agents to interact with US public pensions.

The agency is seeking comments on rules that would prohibit placement agents from dealing with US public pensions.

The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) has revoked lucrative private equity and real estate advisory contracts with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan after concluding that the former head of the federal corporation may have acted inappropriately before and during the bidding process.

PERE magazine July/August 2009.

A scandal in New York is causing big trouble for placement agents everywhere. PERE June 2009

There is an iron rule of public relations during a crisis, which is that one must reveal bad news in its entirety and all at once.

Carlyle has backed a new code that assumes placement agents are prone to ‘Boss Tweed’ inclinations.

State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has today released details on 94 funds to which former comptroller Alan Hevesi committed capital. The comprehensive list also includes the names of placement agents used and the fees they were paid.

A new complaint from the New York attorney general’s office details the allegedly corrupt economic bond between Aldus Equity’s Saul Meyer and political operative Hank Morris, whose relationship ultimately became strained to a point where both created vivid epithets for each other.

The New York attorney general says he will cooperate with AGs in other states to 'shed light on a process that has been perverted'. The wave of subpoenas includes 49 investment firms who allegedly paid unlicensed placement agents for securing public pension capital.