Crowds of investors and CIOs jumped to their feet to applaud Lifetime Achievement Award winner Mansco Perry III, executive director and CIO of the Minnesota State Board of Investment, with two standing ovations on Thursday evening during CIO’s Innovation Awards gala at the glittery NYC Public Library. TJ Carlson, CIO of the Texas Municipal Retirement System and longtime friend of Perry, spoke about his fruitful career. The State of Minnesota announced that due to his many accomplishments, Dec. 13 is now Mansco Perry III Day in the state.
Former NYC Pensions CIO Scott Evans, winner of the 2017 CIO of the Year award, knighted Chris Ailman of CalSTRS as 2018’s CIO of the Year before a crowd of more than 300, with 105 asset owners.
After a seven-member hotseat panel at CIO’s Influential Investors Forum at the Harvard Club moderated by David Holmgren, CIO of Hartford HealthCare, the audience was polled, and Chad Myhre, portfolio manager at Missouri Teachers Retirement System, was voted the NextGen of the Year by CIOs and managers in attendance. Former Innovation Award winners Holmgren and Intermountain Healthcare CIO Jacque Millard presented the 2018 Healthcare award to Anthony Waskiewicz of Mercy Health, St. Louis.
Other winners are as follows:
Collaboration
David Holmgren (Hartford HealthCare)
Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plan Above $15 Billion
Harshal Chaudhari (IBM)
Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plan Below $15 Billion
Susan Ridlen (Eli Lilly)
Defined Contribution Plan
Bob Hunkeler (International Paper)
Endowment
Anne Dinneen (Hamilton College)
ESG
Dan Chu / Michael Brune (Sierra Club)
Foundation
Rosalind Hewsenian (Helmsley Charitable Trust)
Healthcare Organization
Anthony Waskiewicz (Mercy Health, St. Louis)
Public Defined Benefit Plan Below $15 Billion
Sam Masoudi (Wyoming Retirement System)
Public Defined Benefit Plan Between $15 Billion and $100 Billion
Jonathan Grabel (LACERA)
Public Defined Benefit Plan Above $100 Billion
Chris Ailman (CalSTRS)
Sovereign Wealth Fund
Paul Ballard (Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Co.)
Consulting
Allan Martin (NEPC)
Asset Management/Servicing Winners:
Fixed Income/Credit
DoubleLine
Equities
JP Morgan Asset Management
Multi-Asset
PineBridge Investments
Private Equity
Warburg Pincus
Hedge Funds
Citadel
Real Assets
Aberdeen Standard
Defined Contribution Strategies
Northern Trust
OCIO
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Corporate Strategies
Capital Group
Transition Management
Pavilion
Data & Technology
Backstop Solutions
ESG
Invesco
Emerging Markets
PGIM
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