Elizabeth Burton
Investment manager Fortress Investment Group announced the appointment of Elizabeth Burton as chief strategist, a new role at the $54 billion manager.
Burton, who previously served as an investment strategist at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and as CIO of the State of Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System, will lead research and analysis on market conditions and emerging opportunities and will provide perspectives for the firm’s limited partner investors.
Burton’s focus will span broad private market themes with an emphasis on Fortress’ core strategies, which include corporate credit, asset-based finance, real estate, net lease and private equity. She will report to Co-CEOs Drew McKnight and Jack Neumark.
“We’re delighted to welcome Elizabeth to Fortress,” McKnight and Neumark said in a joint statement. “Creating a chief strategist role is a key step in our ongoing efforts to enhance our interactions with investors, and to offer them the most timely and useful insights as they seek to understand the rapidly evolving opportunities to invest in private markets.”
Burton also served as managing director in the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System’s quant strategies group. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in French and politics from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
Burton was named to CIO’s 2017 Forty Under Forty list, CIO’s 2019 Power 100 list, and CIO’s 2023 Knowledge Brokers List. As CIO of Hawaii ERS, she was a winner in CIO’s 2019 Industry Innovation Awards in the public defined benefit less-than-$20 billion category.
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