According to Henry Jones is chair of the CalPERS Investment Committee and vice president of the Board, nothing is more important to portfolio earnings than having the right mix of investments — and few investments are as essential to CalPERS' success as private equity.

Scalable Capital today announced the signing of a €30m funding round, led by BlackRock alongside existing investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and Tengelmann Ventures. This funding round is one of Europe's largest for a digital investment manager to date, bringing Scalable Capital's total funding to €41m.

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation announced the appointment of Kathryn Sweeney as head of SPDR Americas Institutional sales, reporting into Nick Good, co-head with Rory Tobin of the global SPDR business.

According to BlackRock ETP Landscape report from May 2017, industry assets crossed $4trillion after first reaching $3 trillion just two years earlier, with organic growth rising from 11% in the first year to 18% in the second year.

Natixis Asset Management, a leading affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management announced it started testing the FundsDLT blockchain-powered platform for fund managers