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June 4, 2026
How Investors Are Choosing Between Active and Passive Strategies

Both approaches have benefits, but the current market volatility has changed how allocators weigh cost and governance differences.

How Investors Are Choosing Between Active and Passive Strategies
Why the Best AI Investors Are Also Builders
Technology operatives who co-founded a VC firm explain how artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the venture capital model.​
Why the Best AI Investors Are Also Builders
POPULAR STORIES
New York City Pension Funds Return 13% in Fiscal 2026
Family Offices Face a Turning Point
Goldman Sachs to Add $30B in Assets Through NEOS Acquisition
La Caisse Returns 5.1% in First Half of Year
PBGC Makes Coverage Assessments for Prospective Pension Plans Permanent
Norges Bank CEO Warns Disasters, Crises Could Wipe Out $2.4T SWF
Digital Assets Regulation Central to SEC 5-Year Plan
The agency called for ‘legal certainty’ on blockchain and crypto asset technologies, while also prioritizing a reduction in mandatory corporate disclosures.
Digital Assets Regulation Central to SEC 5-Year Plan
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Redeems Assets From Equity Manager
Brown Capital Management’s international all-company strategy will shut down following the $100 million redemption.
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Redeems Assets From Equity Manager
New York City Comptroller Warns Texas Move Would Disenfranchise Exxon Shareholders
Critics say recent Texas laws favor corporate decisionmaking at the expense of shareholders’ proposals and voting power.
New York City Comptroller Warns Texas Move Would Disenfranchise Exxon Shareholders
New York City Aims to Build Up Reserves to Gird for AI Disruption
City Comptroller Mark Levine called for the share of tax revenue dedicated to ‘rainy day fund’ assets to rise to 16% from 8.5%.
New York City Aims to Build Up Reserves to Gird for AI Disruption
Baillie Gifford to Launch ETF Suite in US
The actively managed exchange-traded funds will focus on emerging markets and international stocks.
Baillie Gifford to Launch ETF Suite in US
TRENDING: Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX
Anders Schelde, CIO of AkademikerPension, cited overvaluation and governance concerns about the company, expected to make an initial public offering in June at a $1.8 trillion valuation.
TRENDING: Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX
TRENDING: Volatility Pushes Investors To Consider Active Strategies

Shifts coming at the portfolio construction and market levels mean allocators need to stay focused on their goals.

TRENDING: Volatility Pushes Investors To Consider Active Strategies
Editorial: CIOeditors@issmediasolutions.com
Industry Intel Roundup—Featured Webinars
Chief Investment Officer is pleased to present the next edition of our Industry Intelligence roundup. This week, we are featuring webinars sponsored by or featuring experts in the industry. The content was created to supply actionable insights to institutional asset owners regarding investing and governance.
September 24, 2026
Allocator Insights
Get an exclusive first look at what your peers are doing.
June 25, 2026
What Limited Partners Want
As limited partner expectations evolve, so must the strategies of general partners. This webinar will dive into the minds of today’s LPs—what drives their decisions, what earns their trust and what keeps them committed.
January 22, 2026
Investment Outlook
Market experts will deliver forward-looking insights on the U.S. economy and the global macroeconomic trends shaping investment decisions. Gain a clear perspective on the forces driving markets in 2026—from inflation and interest rate trajectories to sector performance and geopolitical risk.
November 20, 2025
CIO Interview Series: Katherine Molnar, CIO, Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System
A more digital asset-friendly U.S. administration has helped catalyze real changes in how digital assets are discussed. Katherine Molnar, CIO of the Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System, says her team has been investing in digital assets since 2018. Join Amy Resnick, Executive Editor of CIO, as she speaks with Molnar about the change in regulatory uncertainty; how the Fairfax County Retirement Systems has engaged with digital assets and tokenization; and how to get comfortable with the custody of digital assets and custodians.
September 25, 2025
CIO Interview Series: Rich Nuzum, Head of OCIO, Franklin Templeton
Join CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Executive Editor Amy Resnick in conversation with Rich Nuzum, the new head of OCIO at Franklin Templeton and the former executive director of investments at Mercer. They will discuss the evolution of OCIO and the future of institutional allocation. The conversation will touch on the long-term growth potential of outsourcing for all types of institutional asset owners, the fastest growing sectors for outsourcing, for which funds outsourcing makes sense, and fiduciary monitoring—for which fiduciary duties investors are still responsible. Nuzum will also share his thoughts on and insights into the growing trend of the collective defined contribution and the use of model portfolios and custom target-date funds by retirement and institutional investors.
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