Bloomberg - Public pension funds in the U.S. are increasing bets on high-risk hedge funds and real estate in an attempt to fill deficits in retirement plans and make up for their worst performance in six years.
New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is asking lawmakers to increase a cap limiting the amount of so- called alternative […]

Reuters Singapore - U.S.-based Russell Investments, which manages over $211 billion (110 billion pounds) in assets, wants to boost its exposure to Asian real estate as it sees growing markets in China and India withstanding a global downturn.
The company, which raises money from institutions such as pension funds and invests it with other fund managers, […]

Reuters - JPMorgan plans to invest more than $1 billion in Asian real estate over the next three years, hoping to fill a gap as Indian and Chinese developers crave funds and rival investors recoil from property markets.
The investment bank, which has fared better than some Wall Street rivals because of smaller exposure to U.S. […]

Bloomberg- Henry Kravis is taking KKR & Co. public and moving into real estate and stock funds as he tries to catch up with Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm.
KKR, co-founded by Kravis in 1976, relied on leveraged buyouts for 95 percent of profit last year, compared with 29 percent for […]

Reuters Shanghai- Ten new China-focused private equity funds raised $12 billion (six billion pounds) in the second quarter, but poor market conditions have forced foreign funds to delay exits of their investments through IPOs and secondary offerings, consultant firm Zero2IPO said on Thursday.
The second-quarter figure is up 107.6 percent from the same period of 2007 […]

FINalternatives- Bedrock Alternative Asset Management in May launched its Global Diversified Fund, a fund of funds covering private equity, hedge funds, real estate and commodities, combined with traditional stock and bond investments.
The fund will invest in a 15 to 25 underlying hedge fund managers, with exposure to event-driven, long/short equity, managed futures, global macro distressed, […]

Ventura County Star- More than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March, — including dozens in the last two days — in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud that stem from the country’s housing crisis.
The FBI put the losses to home-owners and other borrowers who were victims in the […]

CNN Sports Illustrated- A former hedge fund manager’s suicide has no effect on a lawsuit filed by six former NFL players against the league and its players union over $20 million they say they lost in an investment scheme, an attorney for the plaintiffs said Monday.
The lawsuit claims the union endorsed Kirk Wright’s services even […]