Photo Gallery: 2013 CIO Summit, New York City

Two days, three fireside chats, nine panels, and 92 photos later, a retrospective look at the fourth-annual CIO Summit.
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(April 16, 2013)–Two-hundred twenty people gathered last week in New York City for the fourth-annual CIO Summit, hosted by aiCIO at the Harvard Club.

To see a photo gallery of the event, click here.

The theme of the conference revolved around allowing more flexibility in the CIO suite-and how to work within the governance structures of today’s asset owners to reach specific investing goals. For the full agenda, click here.

Further coverage of the CIO Summit is available below:

aiCIO Summit: LDI or Pension Risk Management? 

A star example of the LDI trend, CenturyLink Investment Management, isn’t actually practicing LDI, according to two managers at the conference.

aiCIO Summit: Why Risk Parity is Perfect For DC

Risk parity is “absolutely appropriate” for defined contribution schemes, conference hears.

aiCIO Summit: How to Help Traders Capture More Alpha

Conference hears that portfolio manager instructions can be overly specific.

aiCIO Summit: ‘Outliers Are Like Cholesterol’

There are good and bad kinds of outlier managers, according to Wake Forest CIO Jim Dunn. 

aiCIO Summit: Good Governance Crucial For Successful In-House Investment

In-house investing requires clear divisions of decision making, conference hears.

aiCIO Summit: Custom Portfolio Tracking Systems

External tech providers have improved their investment dashboards, but do-it-yourself models remain popular.

 aiCIO Summit: How to Sell Risk Allocation to Hesitant Boards

Speaking in trustees’ language and explaining risks are already on the table is key to implementing change, conference hears.