Fidelity Terminates Transition Management Head
Kevin Byrne, a well-respected industry veteran, lost his job over “failure to supervise,” CIO has learned.
Newsmakers
The Seven Rooms
Kip McDaniel on elite executive recruiters and their influence over which CIOs are allowed beyond the first room.
For Female Advancement, Lunch Won’t Cut It
Why mentorship and sponsorship programs aren’t enough to help young women up the ladder to asset management’s elite senior echelon.
The Talent Allocators
The Talent... Allocators
How to Lose Jobs & Alienate Everyone
Some asset owners parachute into
their dream jobs. Most don't.
Vanderbilt’s Risk Chief Joins OCIO
The two-time Forty Under Forty member Bola Olusanya will manage US equity portfolios for Strategic Investment Group.
AIG to Hire CIO for $357B Portfolio
The insurance giant wants to fill the investment chief position that has been vacant since 2013.
Risk Parity’s Hunger Games
There is an oligopoly in risk parity. Can newer shops lure capital away from the powerful elite?
Hauling Finance Out of the ’50s
An almost president and a government-backed fixer on bringing finance into the 21st century.
Pension De-Risking Lands in the Middle East
A Kuwait-based company has insured its UK pension benefits.
Correction-Clarification: The Riddle of Tampa Bay
Zurich Replaces CIO to Run $200B
Cecilia Reyes is to move to a different role within the organisation.
Prof Andrew Ang to Lead BlackRock’s Factor-Based Strategies
The financial economist will leave Columbia Business School to manage $125 billion for the world’s largest fund manager.
The Arranged Marriage
OCIO acquisitions leave institutions with under managers they never hired. How—and how not—to pull it off.
Pension Giant Buys GE Unit
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has agreed to purchase GE Capital’s private-equity lender Antares Capital.
Helmsley Trust's Alts Chief Quits for OCIO Giant
Northern Trust has nabbed Bei Saville to lead its endowment and foundation outsourcing business.