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Providing a Model for other Korean Institutional Investors For Dong Hun Jang, the CIO of Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), sometimes it seems like his biggest risk is not the pension fund’s investments, but rather the perplexed perceptions o

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Deploying a complex set of strategies It shouldn’t be surprising that Ela Karahasanoglu, the Director of Total Fund Management, at BCI (British Columbia Investment Management Corporation) likes to work on 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles.

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A Firm Believer In Active Management  The C-suite world keeps expanding as organizations find more and more tasks to precede with the label of “chief,” but the investment world doesn’t have a lot of Chief Strategy Officers – except f

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Creating an innovative lifetime income plan for her company’s retirees Robin Diamonte, the CIO of Raytheon Technologies, is a woman on a mission, maybe even a couple of missions. Many pension fund CIOs are exclusively focused on beating their benchmark and leave worrying about retirees

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Beyond the Fringe Mario Therrien says he works “at the fringe” of CDPQ (the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec), the Montreal based long-term institutional investor that manages funds primarily for public and parapublic pension and insurance plans, where h

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Seeking to coordinate what can be coordinated and improve what can be improved ABB is known for the large scale, complex engineering projects it has undertaken in 130 countries around the world, and its pension system, covering some 400,000 active and retired

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Scott Pittman Says Alternative Investments Are Just What the Doctor Ordered Scott Pittman, a certified EMT who used to spend weekends riding shotgun in ambulances while in college, became the first CIO at Mount Sinai Health System in New York at the start of 2

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Shifts & Updates to the Flight Plan If you want to know what big ideas have been percolating at the Blue Sky Group, it helps to look at some academic journals.

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“I jumped at the chance to build a truly world-class portfolio.” Most people docking their boat at the Caribbean Marina on Lake Minnetonka, just outside Minneapolis, don’t realize that the guy scampering around the dock, making sure they’ve got a full tank of

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How Storebrand has Become Synonymous with Sustainability for Investors Jan Erik Saugestad, the CEO of Norway’s Storebrand Asset Management, is so well known as a global leader in issues of sustainability and ESG that it’s easy to forget he has helped build his