Will New Investment Vehicles Create More Problems Than They Solve? | Exclusive Q&A With CIO Dhvani Shah, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
Dhvani Shah is the chief investment officer of Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF), a pension fund with $34.9 billion assets under management. Previously, Shah was the managing director of private equity of the $89.9 billion New York State Teachers' Retirement System. Shah has a BBA from Loyola University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Shah was recently named on Trusted Insight's 2017 Top 30 Women Chief Investment Officers.
The Art Of Doing Nothing: Steve Edmundson Of Nevada PERS | Exclusive Q&A
Steve Edmundson is the investment officer at the Public Employees' Retirement System of Nevada (NVPERS). As a one-man team, he oversees all aspects of the system’s $34.9 billion (as of 2016) investment program, including investment operations, compliance, research, manager oversight and implementation of investment strategy. Nevada’s pension fund is known for its simple and conservative portfolio strategy despite an increasing trend of complex investment strategies pursued by many of its pension peers. In this interview, Edmundson explains why his simple model is just as good as any other investment model and why doing nothing is something.
CIO Robert Maynard On Idaho's Simple, Transparent Portfolio And Why It Works | Exclusive Q&A
Robert Maynard is the chief investment officer of the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI), a pension with $15 billion in assets under management. In this interview, he explains why investing is done best when done simply for a pension fund like PERSI, how to manage a portfolio effectively with a small staff and why it is one of the world’s best jobs that he’d pay people to have it if he was rich.
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Derisking Is Critical To A 'Hard Frozen' Pension Plan: Carol McFate, Xerox Corporation | Exclusive Q&A
Carol McFate is the chief investment officer of Xerox Corporation, where her team is responsible for the investment management of roughly $9 billion in defined benefit and defined contribution investments for North American plans. McFate was recently named on Trusted Insight’s list of the Top 30 Corporate Chief Investment Officers. She spoke with Trusted Insight on October 24, 2016.
Aflac CIO Eric Kirsch Joins CIO-Led Forum To Discuss Private Credit
Eric Kirsch, global chief investment officer at Aflac, has joined a prestigious cohort of chief investment officers meeting next year to share his insights on future investment trends in private credit.
Exclusive Q&A: David Villa, Chief Investment Officer, State of Wisconsin Investment Board
David Villa joined the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) as the chief investment officer in 2006. He oversees the state pension's $99 billion in assets. Mr. Villa was recently named on Trusted Insight’s Top 30 Public Pension Chief Investment Officers.