In Focus

Market Drilldown December 2, 2024

Global Geopolitical Realignment Has Long-Term Investing Implications

Investors are seeking safe havens and new geographic opportunities as the world becomes more fractured.

Shop Talk December 7, 2017

Learning from the Swiss

Following the Pension 2020 rejection, Swiss citizens are still grappling with pension reform—as well as a resulting tax reduction. Had the September overhaul been accepted, Pension 2020 would have...

Market Drilldown December 7, 2017

Political Wildcards

Investors tend to focus on the factors they’re most familiar with when looking at markets. Analyzing items such as corporate earnings and economic indicators take center stage. The past...

CIO Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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 Spotlight December 7, 2017

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...

CIO Spotlight December 7, 2017

CIO Profile: Kim Lew (The Carnegie Corporation of New York)

Kim Lew has rightly gained a reputation for innovative investing during her tenure as CIO of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She says it’s driven by a willingness...

CIO Spotlight November 20, 2017

Interrogation: Harshal Chaudhari

Harshal Chaudhari became IBM’s new CIO barely a year ago, in 2016, upon being tapped internally from his CFO post. It followed a gradual ladder climb, which he began...

CIO Spotlight November 20, 2017

Interrogation: Brian Pellegrino

In 2017, UPS announced it would freeze benefits to 70,000 non-union active employees in the management defined benefit plan by 2023. Its other non-union and union plans will remain...