Douglas Appell

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INVESTING FIXED INCOME APR 05, 2011
Gross urges speeding up global bond allocations

Institutional investors increasingly are thinking outside the U.S. Barclays Capital Aggregate box for their fixed-income allocations, but market veterans say that it will be a long time before there are more-global mandates

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 12, 2010
AllianceBernstein CEO sees rebound ahead for troubled firm

Peter Kraus' efforts to pull AllianceBernstein LP out of the hole it fell into during the financial crisis have yet to steady anxious institutional investors, but the chief executive insists that the changes his team is putting in place are positioning the firm to turn the tide

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS DEC 09, 2010
TCW mutual fund chief bolts; another exec makes a U-turn

Ronald R. Redell left his post as president and CEO of the TCW Funds Inc. and TCW Strategic Income Fund Inc. to run the fixed-income mutual fund operation at DoubleLine LLC, according to a news release.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 28, 2010
New strategy targets commodities risk in equity portfolios

Mountain Pacific Group LLC, a money management boutique led by Ronald G. Layard-Liesching, plans to measure and manage the commodities-related risks embedded in institutional investors' U.S. equity allocations

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 28, 2010
New strategy targets commodities risk in equity portfolios

Mountain Pacific Group LLC, a money management boutique led by Ronald G. Layard-Liesching, is plans to measure and manage the commodities-related risks embedded in institutional investors' U.S. equity allocations

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 30, 2010
Money funds may prove a tough sell for clients of SSgA stable-value funds

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS SEP 10, 2010
Clay Finlay to shut down

Clay Finlay, an international equity boutique, will be wound down over the coming months, and its $1.8 billion of assets will be returned to clients, said Thomas M. Turpin, president and CEO of the firm’s parent company, Old Mutual Asset Management.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 29, 2010
Quant firms tinker with factor weightings

A growing number of quantitative equity managers are striving to match their computer models to changing market environments better as they fight to reverse the performance drought they've been in since the start of the financial crisis in mid-2007.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 16, 2010
Fidelity's institutional services boss exiting

Peter Cieszko, president of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services, is leaving at the end of January “

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS MAY 04, 2010
OppenheimerFunds ex-boss Macaskill named CEO at First Eagle

Bridget A. Macaskill, president and COO of First Eagle Investment Management, was also named CEO.