The sixth annual Chief Investment Officer Industry Innovation Awards is less than five months away. On Thursday, December 3rd, 450 of CIO’s closest institutional investor friends and those who do business with them will once again gather at the New York Public Library to celebrate the best and bravest among us.
Now’s your chance to tell us who they are.
Since we started these awards in 2010, ‘innovation’ has become an overused buzzword. While some confuse innovation with change, we do not: Our goal is to highlight the truly fresh and advantageous approaches to asset management and asset owning, separating the meaningful from the merely different.
So think about that when you’re nominating asset owners and managers/service providers. What have they done that truly leads, that has changed the way we think about this business?
Nominations close Friday, August 14. Submit before then—or forever hold your peace.
Note: If the above links to our nomination form don’t work for you, email us. You probably (a) work for a major bank and thus (b) have a firewall that’s tougher than the Studio 54 door circa 1978. We’re happy to send over a lower tech nomination outline.
Details:
a) Finalists for both asset owners and asset managers/servicers will be announced on September 9.
b) The finalists and winners will be chosen by the CIO editorial team in conjunction with an advisory board of former and current CIOs/asset managers; some categories (investment outsourcing, transition management, liability-driven investing, and strategic beta management) will be judged based largely on data collected via the CIO survey system.
c) The overall “Innovator of the Year” award—given last year to Ontario Teachers’ Neil Petroff—will be announced at the dinner, and will be drawn from the winners of the asset owner categories.
d) The Lifetime Achievement Award will also be presented at the dinner.
Asset Owner Categories (2014 winners, where applicable)
Foundation (Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies)
Endowment (University of Chicago)
Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Below $5 Billion (DTE Energy)
Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Above $5 Billion (BP America)
Public Defined Benefit Pension Below $15 Billion (Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System)
Public Defined Benefit Pension Above Between $15 Billion and $100 Billion (Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois)
Public Defined Benefit Pension Above $100 Billion (Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan)
Sovereign Wealth Fund (New Mexico State Investment Council)
Health Care Organization (OhioHealth)
Defined Contribution Plan (CenturyLink Investment Management)
Family Office
Asset Manager Categories (2014 winners, where applicable)
Fixed Income (Wellington Management Company)
Equities (MFS Investment Management)
Alternative Beta
Emerging Markets (Investec)
Private Equity (Dyal Capital Partners/Neuberger Berman)
Hedge Funds (AQR)
Real Assets (JP Morgan Asset Management)
Custom Defined Contribution Strategies (NISA Investment Advisors, category slightly altered)
Risk-Balanced/Long-Term Beta Strategies (includes risk parity products) (Columbia Management)
Tactical Risk Management (includes tail hedging products) (PIMCO)
Investment Outsourcing (Goldman Sachs Asset Management)
Corporate Investment Strategies (includes LDI and completion management) (LGIMA, category slightly altered)
Corporate Liability Strategies (includes pension-risk transfer and plan design) (Prudential, category slightly altered)
Asset Servicing (includes custody, securities lending, and transition management) (Russell Investments)
Data & Technology (Protégé Partners)