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Here's a roundup of hires and promotions in the alternative investment industry for the week ending Sept. 22, including at TPG, Man Group, Stellus Capital Management and more.

Berthel Fisher’s Rick Murphy on growing relevance of alts for retail wealth managers Berthel Fisher knows alternative investments. For decades, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based diversified financial services firm has deployed a vetting process on these complex investments before including them on ...

Private Equity The New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Division of Investment hired Dana Johns as head of private equity. Before joining the $88 billion pension fund manager, she was a member of the private equity team at the Maryland ...

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $4.4 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period for the week ending Sept. 23. Private equity: $2.6 billion Blue Ridge Construction Capital acquired Matthews Sand and Gravel and Edge ...

Cantor Fitzgerald announced this week that long-time UBS executive and former head of the firm’s fund of hedge fund business, William Ferri, is now leading an expansion of its asset management platform. Ferri joins as global head of asset management ...

Chicago-based alternative investment powerhouse GCM Grosvenor reported asset growth of 7% in 2020 attributable to $7 billion in fundraising and investment performance. Of the capital raised in 2020, the majority was in private markets and only $1.5 billion was in ...

Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC has planned an additional $200 million investment with Cantor Fitzgerald’s SPAC CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II and View Inc. in a private investment in public equity issuance (PIPE). The fresh capital from GIC grows the ...

The $57 billion alternative investment firm GCM Grosvenor will become a public company through a merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, in a deal valued at $2 billion. According the company announcement, the combined ...