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Who are Louisiana's biggest "in state" money managers

Posted on 8/15/23 at 1:33 pm
Posted by secfballfan
Member since Feb 2016
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 1:33 pm
Virtually 100% of State Pension money is outsourced and most of LSU's. So who are the biggest money managers of money that do it in Louisiana? Insurance companies sometimes do but $1 Billion Amerisafe has a CT firm manage their money I am told. Benson $ managed out of New Orleans? BCBS is done at national level. Pennington?
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 1:52 pm to
Are you asking who has the largest assets under care of Louisiana RIAs or something along those lines, or what is the largest individual account that is managed in state?
Posted by juice4lsu
Member since Dec 2007
3697 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 10:08 am to
NewEdge Advisors is likely the largest. The RIA has roughly $20 Billion AUM and growing rapidly.
Posted by Decisions
Member since Mar 2015
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Posted on 8/17/23 at 5:59 am to
This total lack of major financial players in the state is something strange I’ve noticed as well. You’d think New Orleans would have at least A FEW major players as holdovers from the old days.
Posted by SalE
At the beach
Member since Jan 2020
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Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:04 pm to
None
Posted by UnoDelgado
Covington
Member since Nov 2019
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Posted on 8/19/23 at 10:47 pm to
Villere & Co. has $1.8billion under management. They have two mutual funds that have underperformed over the past few years.
Posted by whodatigahbait
Uptown
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 8/21/23 at 10:09 am to
quote:

Virtually 100% of State Pension money is outsourced and most of LSU's. So who are the biggest money managers of money that do it in Louisiana? Insurance companies sometimes do but $1 Billion Amerisafe has a CT firm manage their money I am told. Benson $ managed out of New Orleans? BCBS is done at national level. Pennington?



A couple comments to this and other responses

-most state pensions/university endowments in every single state are outsourced to the big consultants, very few do it in house like Harvard/Yale/Calpers
-The insurance companies are probably the closest thing as they allocate money from the General account to various asset managers, with that being said, most money is going to end up in New York etc. (same can be said for the above self managed accounts, a lot of their money will end up at Blackrock, Fidelity, Wellington etc. + the alt shops etc. - only difference btw LSU and Harvard is that LSU outsources allocation, Harvard allocation decision are in-house)
-As mentioned Villere is probably one of the largest "institutional" RIA/Asset Managers
-Largest institutional asset manager is likely Bernhard Capital ~$3.5 billion in AUM
-I would not include a New Edge/Goss as a money manager, they are an RIA/wealth manager roll-up, their whole game was recruiting advisors to their platform so that those advisors can take advantage of larger scale with vendors/clearing firms/broker-dealers etc. (LPL mostly),
-I do agree it is crazy that there no mutual fund/TAMP type RIAs based in LA

My 2 cents on what was discussed in this thread
Posted by 1609tiger
Member since Feb 2011
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Posted on 8/24/23 at 11:28 pm to
Argent Financial is headquartered in Ruston. Primarily Trusts and Money management. Operates in 13 states and 40 billion plus in assets.
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