Newsmakers
Priceless Artifacts, Extra Pandas, & $1B: Investing the Smithsonian
CIO Amy Chen goes back to basics.
Taking Asset Management to the Cleaners
Can an ambitious, collaborative approach to transparency succeed where other efforts have failed?
What Have the Beatles Ever Done for Pensions?
A consultant’s 60s-themed party brings on some pensions-related nostalgia.
Sketching the Pension Landscape
Meeting the engineering industry pension that is taking on NEST in the battle for the UK’s auto-enrolment business.
University of Washington Creates Management Firm for $3B Endowment
The Seattle-based university has launched the University of Washington Investment Management Company in hopes of boosting returns and attracting expertise.
Why Isn’t Defined Contribution… Better?
Turner Consulting’s Elvin Turner on getting America’s defined contribution back on track.
Mikael Angberg Is Innovating, Collaborating—and Winning
It’s all about creating robust processes for Swedish pension fund AP1’s chief Mikael Angberg.
Our Journey to Long-Term Mandates
How the UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund ripped up the rulebook to embrace long-termism in its investment mandates.
PSP Joins Texas Teachers in Opening London Office
Canada’s $112 billion Public Sector Pension Investment Board is looking to expand its global footprint and hired a private equity expert to lead the charge.
What’s Chinese for ‘Being the Best You Can Be’?
CIO’s European Editor on the responsibility of being excellent—and what it takes to be truly number one.
Next Generation, Consulting Innovation Award Finalists Announced
Select members of CIO’s Forty Under Forty and Knowledge Brokers lists have been named finalists for the 2015 Industry Innovation Awards.
GE to Sell Asset Management Division
The industrial giant has announced plans to sell GE Asset Management to another leading investment management firm.
APG CEO Dick Sluimers to Resign
The €417 billion Dutch pension manager announced its chief executive will step down at the beginning of next year.