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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

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Böhm's Burning-Bush, Road-to-Damascus Pension Meltdown Experience Sigmund Freud, perhaps Vienna’s most famous resident, once said “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength,” and that may well describe the Austrian occupational pension system.

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The K-Pop of Financial Services As Korea has shot out of the emerging market/developing country category and joined the industrialized world, everything seems to get more complicated and sophisticated.

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It’s important to be making good decisions under stress; but equally important is not making bad decisions For many of the 750,000 participants in PensionDanmark, their retirement plan comes to them, not only in their mailbox or electronically in their bank ac

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Integrating Diversity & Inclusion at CTPF Although the City of Chicago and State of Illinois keep handing her lemons, Angela Miller-May, the CIO of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF), keeps making lemonade. Since becoming CIO of the $10.7 billion pl

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Shaking Up PERA When Dominic Garcia returned to New Mexico in September 2017 to become CIO of the New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), after 10 years at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, it was very much of a homecoming. Not only w

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Managing Healthcare with a Catholic-based Investment Policy As vast numbers of Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and elsewhere started pouring across America a century and a half ago, in virtually every town of any size, they first built a church, and t

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Statewide Super's Size is an Advantage Con Michalakis says Statewide Super, the AUD$9.7 billion superannuation fund where he’s been CIO for the past dozen years, may be smaller than some of Australia’s giant supers, but it’s faring well: “We’re the Spartans ve

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Finding Undiscovered Talent in Emerging Managers Sometimes Kirk Sims feels like he’s swimming against the tide. As a Senior Manager and head of the Emerging Managers program at the $155 billion Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), his job is to find undi