Frances Denmark

Our Township is too precious to let party politics interfere with my choice of candidates. Here is the reason why a sometime Democrat is voting for the two Republican candidates: As a former social worker (MSW), I understand the need for towns in New Jersey to make space for low and moderate income housing. The original 1975 law that mandated this goal was designed with the best intentions: to make room for affordable housing in small New Jersey towns.

The Cook County Pension Fund has landed a new chief investment officer roughly a year after director of investments Fernando Vinzons departed from the fund. Uwe Schillhorn, who most recently served as a program director for the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance, announced via LinkedIn on Tuesday that he had joined the fund.

Asset management firms are worried about external and internal threats to their businesses but many aren’t responding to those perils like they should, according to a study by Northern Trust and Coalition Greenwich, a data and analytics firm for the financial services industry. Even though 84 percent of managers expect that they will grow, just 22 percent plan to make changes necessary to their operating models to achieve efficiency and cost savings.