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Los Angeles Times Barks Up the Wrong Tree With CalPERS/American Media Inc. (National Enquirer) Story

The Los Angeles Times tells the story of a CalPERS investment misfire to maximize the outrage factor, and does taxpayers a huge disservice by missing who the real perps were (mind you, not to say that CalPERS isn’t too easy a mark….)

CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Lied About Private Equity to State Senator Dr. Richard Pan at Joint Pension Committee Hearing

CalPERS lied to the wrong person. State Senator Dr. Richard Pan is smart enough to know he was snookered when word gets back to him.

CalPERS’ Management Continues to Lie to Its Board and Beneficiaries About Its Private Equity Scheme

CalPERS is once again up to no good on the private equity front.

Even More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”

It has taken three posts to unpack all the lies that John Cole told CalPERS’ board in December about its new private equity scheme.

Even Endowments Not Beating Vanguard….So What Good Are Those High Fee Private Equity and Hedge Funds?

Even endowments, the supposed best of best among diversified investors, are finding that their old alternative investment mojo isn’t working these days.

Reining in Leveraged Lending

Yves here. This article pre-supposes that readers understand that most leveraged lending is taking place as a result of private equity, via two routes. First, private equity funds use a great deal of borrowed money when buying companies. One of the biggest sources is so-called leveraged loans, which are normally originally made by banks, but […]

More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”

More on how CalPERS will get its pockets picked in its newfangled private equity scheme.

Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?

CalPERS is at it again…this time in the form of its private equity architect John Cole showing the world that he is way over his head.

Private Equity Expert Dr. Ashby Monk Repudiates CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Private Equity Scheme During and Immediately After Presentation at CalPERS

CalPERS can’t even get friendly private equity experts to back Marcie Frost’s hare-brained scheme.

CalPERS Star Hire Elisabeth Bourqui Resigns Suddenly After Only Eight Months, an Indictment of CEO Marcie Frost; Insiders Speculate Private Equity Was the Cause

CalPERS loses a highly qualified top executive. CEO Marcie Frost’s fingerprints are all over the departure, in a bad way.

CalPERS’ Private Equity “Fire, Aim, Ready”: Railroading Board by Screening Candidates Before Scheme Approved; Seeking to be Victimized Again by Silver Lake Partners

Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.

CalPERS’ Bill Slaton (Again) Embarrasses Himself and the CalPERS Board

CalPERS board member Bill Slaton demonstrates why he needs to go sooner rather than later.

CalPERS Admits Its New Private Equity Funds Will Dilute Returns, Seeks to Change Benchmark to Hide That; Presents Other Questionable Claims as Top Investors Underperform Due to “Alternative Investments”

Awfully late in the game, CalPERS finally tries to ‘splain its private equity plans. The giant fund only digs its hole deeper.

Our New York Magazine Article: “‘Alpha Wolves in the Henhouse’: California’s Multibillion-Dollar Private-Equity Boondoggle”

Putting CalPERS under the hot lights for its questionable private equity plans.

JJ Jelincic: CalPERS’ New Private Equity Model – What’s the Payoff?

CalPERS claims for its private equity “new business model” don’t add up. That suggests there are other motives.

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Los Angeles Times Barks Up the Wrong Tree With CalPERS/American Media Inc. (National Enquirer) Story

CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Lied About Private Equity to State Senator Dr. Richard Pan at Joint Pension Committee Hearing

CalPERS’ Management Continues to Lie to Its Board and Beneficiaries About Its Private Equity Scheme

Even More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”

Even Endowments Not Beating Vanguard….So What Good Are Those High Fee Private Equity and Hedge Funds?

Reining in Leveraged Lending

More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”

Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?

Private Equity Expert Dr. Ashby Monk Repudiates CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Private Equity Scheme During and Immediately After Presentation at CalPERS

CalPERS Star Hire Elisabeth Bourqui Resigns Suddenly After Only Eight Months, an Indictment of CEO Marcie Frost; Insiders Speculate Private Equity Was the Cause

CalPERS’ Private Equity “Fire, Aim, Ready”: Railroading Board by Screening Candidates Before Scheme Approved; Seeking to be Victimized Again by Silver Lake Partners

CalPERS’ Bill Slaton (Again) Embarrasses Himself and the CalPERS Board

CalPERS Admits Its New Private Equity Funds Will Dilute Returns, Seeks to Change Benchmark to Hide That; Presents Other Questionable Claims as Top Investors Underperform Due to “Alternative Investments”

Our New York Magazine Article: “‘Alpha Wolves in the Henhouse’: California’s Multibillion-Dollar Private-Equity Boondoggle”

JJ Jelincic: CalPERS’ New Private Equity Model – What’s the Payoff?

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