Private Equity And Hedge Funds Targeted By AFL-CIO

There is a movement among certain pension fund managers to question their investments, a Hedge Funds and Private Equity panel discussion in Washington DC Tuesday hammered out. As “short-termism” in fund manager thinking is used as a backdrop that is juxtaposed to long-term investment lock-ups, increasingly pension funds are questioning the lack of performance and investment strategies that are at odds with long-term economic prosperity. Why are private equity firms locking up long term investments but executing short term strategies Institutional investors are increasingly asking why it is that their money is locked up in long-term private equity and hedge…