Tag: Florida State Board of Administration

April 21, 2020

CIO Roundtable (Part 3): The Coronavirus’ Chain Reaction on Asset Allocation, Modern Society, and Portfolio Performance

Chief investment officers discuss their approaches in keeping their asset allocation strategies distinct when asset performance is out of control.

April 20, 2020

CIO Roundtable (Part 2): Alternative Investment Performance in an Alternative Environment

Chief investment officers from leading institutions share their insights on alternative asset dynamics stimulated by the coronavirus pandemic.

April 2, 2020

CIO Roundtable (Part 1): How Top Asset Allocators are Dealing with Today’s Volatile Market

Asset allocators from the most prominent US institutions offer wisdom and advice to the industry and discuss the pandemic’s effects on their funds.

July 11, 2019

Ee Aye, Ee Aye, Oh: How Farm Investing Appeals to Pension Funds

It checks the boxes: diversification, non-correlated, steady demand. But watch out for Mother Nature.

Newsmakers February 4, 2019

Florida Pensions Investigate Potential Discriminatory Behavior by Airbnb

Allegations could lead to a state-wide prohibition on purchasing shares of the company.

Asset Management Culture February 1, 2019

Florida’s Ash Williams to Be Next CIO Podcast Guest

The 2017 lifetime achievement honoree discusses 2019 outlook, trade war, hobbies, and interests.

Risk August 16, 2018

Florida Retirement Systems Returns 8.98% in 2018

State pension fund assets surpass benchmark to reach $160.4 billion market value.

Risk July 11, 2018

Florida State Pension Fund Returns 8.99%

Preliminary fiscal-year returns add $6.8 billion to fund.

Newsmakers November 13, 2017

Florida’s State Pension Votes to Sue Valeant over Losses

State board of administration alleges it lost $62 million due to fraud.

Newsmakers October 17, 2017

Florida SBA’s Ash Williams to Receive CIO’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Williams to be honored during CIO’s Innovation Awards Dec. 7.

Industry White Papers

Optimizing Pension Risk Transfer Timing and Execution Pension risk transfer transaction timing is always important — but now more than ever.

2020 Long-term Capital Market Assumptions Q3 Update

Investing in Real Estate, Look to New York—Here’s Why Capitalizing on near-term opportunities

2020 Long-term Capital Market Assumptions Q2 Update

Emerging Markets and Covid-19: Crisis or opportunity…or both? 2020 will be a challenging moment for Emerging Markets’ economies. But there will likely be a wide open Emerging Markets “door” that sees governments fall back on privatisation to bridge fiscal holes. In an environment of tight domestic monetary conditions and reduced cross border flows, the buyers of these assets have considerable advantage.

Meditations in an emergency Multi-Asset Strategist Adam Berger discusses the macro and market impact of the coronavirus and offers his "playbook" for the coming weeks and months, including thoughts on rebalancing and opportunistic investments.