CIO Spotlight
The CIO Who Left a $1.9 Million Job
at CDPQ to Help Run France
A year later, Roland Lescure discusses his transition to politics.
NextGen Forum: Alexandra Coupe
Associate Director, Quantitative Equity Strategies, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC
David Holmgren, and the Art of the Deal
After earning 20.2%—a record for the fund—for calendar 2017, Holmgren drilled down into his latest endeavors and strategies for CIO.
CIO Profile: Rich Nuzum (Mercer)
Rich Nuzum determines his clients’ sources of competitive edge and then matches them to investments that are less correlated to stock markets. In order to achieve diversification in an...
CIO Profile: Ashbel “Ash” Williams (Florida State Board of Administration)
From the Global Financial Crisis to hurricanes, Ashbel “Ash” Williams is a man who seems to be able to head into the stormiest of investment markets and steer his...
CIO Profile: Jagdeep Bachher (University of California Officer of the Regents)
Jagdeep Bachher took ESG as a category or box to check and expanded it into an organizational mindset for the University of California. The environmental, social, and governance consequences...
CIO Profile: Raphael Arndt (Australian Future Fund)
Raphael Arndt didn’t begin his career as an investor; but rather as an infrastructure engineer right out of school in 1992. He came to investing—in 2001—out of frustration, after an infrastructure...
CIO Profile: Bob Watson (FCA, US)
Bob Watson is a 32-year veteran of FCA US. He tells CIO that a passion for cars brought him to the business straight out of school, and even though...
CIO Profile: Scott Evans (New York City Retirement System)
Merely a year after Scott Evans retired from managing nearly $500 billion at TIAA-CREF, he says a sense of civic duty led him to the CIO role overseeing New...
CIO Profile: Vijoy Chattergy (Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System)
When he joined the Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System (HIERS) in 2011 and was selected to be its fourth CIO in 2012, Vijoy Chattergy knew the only way to dig...
CIO Profile: Elisabeth Bourqui (ABB Group)
Zurich-based ABB is one of the largest engineering companies in the world. Because of its global presence, the company also has a global population of pension plan participants, which...
CIO Profile: Brian Reed (Computer Sciences — CSRA Inc.)
When Brian Reed joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as the director of retirement plan assets in 2012, the company was involved in a major restructuring. Reed was tasked with...
CIO Profile: Tom Joy (Church Commissioners for England)
Innovation can come from blending and managing goals that can sometimes be at odds with each other. Tom Joy has done exactly that over the last year. The chief...