Industry Innovation Awards

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Welcome to CIO’s awards season, now in its 12th year!

This year, we are celebrating those who have thrived and been incredible leaders as markets have turned rough and inflation and rates have risen. We are planning to gather in person to applaud their hard work on December 6 at Chelsea Piers in New York City.

As we selected these finalists, our mission was to search the industry for firms that have truly and reliably enhanced the portfolios and improved the work of their clients. While canvassing and reviewing the award nominations, we learned just how hard so many of you are working in the face of a global shift in monetary policy that has made markets challenging.

Many have reexamined long-held assumptions and are achieving success against the backdrop of geopolitical forces unwinding decades of globalization and other macro trends. We are also recognizing finalist firms that are working with asset owners to improve the technology and information they have access to about their portfolio, and those organizations that are working to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in this industry.

And in a year when the label has become a lightning rod, we are also recognizing firms for their work in environmental, social and governance-driven investing.

Since 2010, CIO has used this awards program to highlight truly innovative approaches to the challenges of institutional asset ownership and asset management. Our panel of industry judges will help us to select the winners from this qualified group of contenders.

The finalists are listed below.

On December 6 at Chelsea Piers, we will host both the Influential Investors Forum and our Industry Innovation Awards celebration, where we will announce this year’s winners.

Save the date, because you’ll want to be in the room to meet finalists, talk with them about investing and join the excitement as our winners are announced. There is nothing like having a room full of peers to applaud your hard-won success.

Asset Owner Industry Innovation Award Finalists:

 

Corporate Defined Benefit

Efforts in Diversification

Efforts in ESG

Endowments & Foundations

Health Care Plans

Public Defined Benefit Assets Less Than $12B

Public Defined Benefit Assets $12B to $20B

Public Defined Benefit Assets $20B to $100B

Public Defined Benefit Assets Greater Than $100B

Risk Management

Sovereign Wealth Funds

Corporate Defined Benefit

  • Cummins Inc.—Gloria Griesinger
  • Eastman Kodak—Thomas Mucha
  • DuPont Capital Management—Valerie J. Sill
  • International Monetary Fund—Derek Bills Winner
  • FedEx—Jeff Lewis
  • General Electric Pension Trust—Harshal Chaudhari

Efforts in Diversification

  • Pension Protection Fund—Barry Kenneth
  • Hartford Health Care—David Holmgren Winner
  • Nest—Mark Fawcett
  • New York Common Retirement Fund—Anastasia Titarchuk

Efforts in ESG

  • Pension Protection Fund—Barry Kenneth Winner
  • Hartford Health Care—David Holmgren
  • PGGM—Geraldine Leegwater
  • Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA)—Jonathan Grabel
  • Church Commissioners for England—Tom Joy

Endowments & Foundations

  • Wesleyan University—Anne Martin
  • The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation—Jonathan Hook Winner
  • Trinity Wall Street—Meredith Jenkins

Health Care Plans

  • SSM Health—Mark Cagwin
  • Indiana University Health—Josh Rabuck
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—Jason Klein Winner
  • Hackensack Meridian Health—Donna Snider
  • Thomas Jefferson University—Alfred Salvato
  • Cleveland Clinic—Stefan Strein

Public Defined Benefit Assets Less Than $12B

  • Seattle City Employees’ Retirement System—Jason Malinowski
  • Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System; Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System—Katherine Molnar; Andrew J. Spellar
  • University of Missouri System—Thomas Richards Winner

Public Defined Benefit Assets $12B to $20B

  • Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan—Jeb Burns
  • New Mexico Educational Retirement Board—Bob Jacksha Winner
  • Los Angeles Water & Power Employees’ Retirement Plan—Jeremy Wolfson

Public Defined Benefit Assets $20B to $100B

  • Pension Protection Fund—Barry Kenneth
  • Orange County Employees Retirement System—Molly Murphy
  • Indiana Public Retirement System—Scott Davis
  • Maryland State Retirement Agency—Andrew Palmer Winner

Public Defined Benefit Assets Greater Than $100B

  • State of Wisconsin Investment Board—Edwin Denson Winner
  • New York Common Retirement Fund—Anastasia Titarchuk
  • California State Teachers’ Retirement System—Christopher Ailman

Risk Management

  • International Paper—Robert Hunkeler
  • Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA)—Jonathan Grabel
  • General Electric Pension Trust—Harshal Chaudhari Winner
  • State of Wisconsin Investment Board—Edwin Denson

Sovereign Wealth Funds

  • Texas Permanent School Fund—Holland Timmins
  • Fondo de Ahorro de Panama (Panama Sovereign Wealth Fund)—Abdiel Santiago Winner
  • Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation—Marcus Frampton

Asset Management & Servicing Awards Finalists:

 

Consultant of the Year

Data and Technology

Diversity

ESG

Hedge Funds

Liability-Driven Investing

Multi-Strategy Investing

OCIO

Private Assets

Real Assets and Infrastructure

Consultant of the Year

  • Mercer Consulting, in recognition of the service of Cori Trautvetter
  • NEPC, in recognition of the service of Kristin Reynolds and Allan Martin
  • Aiperion, in recognition of the service of Sorina Zahan Winner

Data and Technology

  • Diligend
  • Venn by Two Sigma
  • SEI Winner
  • Intelligo
  • Lumenai Investments LLC
  • Vidrio Financial

Diversity

  • Ariel Investments Winner
  • PIMCO
  • Verus Investments
  • NEPC

ESG

  • Russell Investments
  • TOBAM
  • Boston Common Asset Management
  • IOR, LLC Winner

Hedge Funds

  • Teza Technologies Winner
  • Lumenai Investments LLC
  • Tectonic Investors

Liability-Driven Investing

  • LGIM America Winner
  • Agilis
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM)
  • Capital Group

Multi-Strategy Investing

  • TOBAM Winner
  • LGIM America
  • Capital Group

OCIO

  • BERG Capital Management
  • SEI
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management Winner

Private Assets

  • Principal Global Investors
  • PIMCO
  • Neuberger Berman Winner

Real Assets and Infrastructure

  • Principal Global Investors
  • ABL Aviation Winner
  • Actis

Influential Investors Forum

Contact Information

Sponsorship Information

Rob Reif (212) 217-6906

General Information

Carol Popkins (203) 461-0985