“Brett is a highly intelligent investor with a great range of experience, having worked within the asset owner, funds management, and asset consulting space. One of his biggest strengths is his capacity to build diverse and experienced teams. Brett has played a critical role in helping to develop and implement our new investment model.”

— Kristian Fok, CIO of Cbus

The world’s largest pension fund ‘drastically’ reduces its basic fee rate.

What are some of the key drivers in servicing institutional investor clients in transitioning their portfolios? Asset flows. Dispersion. Risk mitigation. Technological advances. Here are the trends that William Cobbett, Head of Transition Management Americas, is seeing from his capital markets desk at Citi in New York, and how they may factor into an asset owner’s choice of transition manager.

More than a third of board members and a quarter of executives in large corporations are female.

Traditional approaches to de-risking DB plans haven’t yielded the desired results

CIO Jerry Albright seeks to significantly lower the $1.4 billion per year the fund pays to external managers.