PensionsMarch 21, 2024

NCPERS to Host Chief Officers Summit in June

The summit will bring together public pension CEOs and CIOs in Nashville.

Reported by Matt Toledo

The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems will host its annual Chief Officers Summit from June 17 through 19 in Nashville, Tennessee. The forum aims to facilitate open dialogue between executives of public pension funds.

Registration for the summit is open to CEOs and CIO of pension funds, as well as executive directors, plan administrators and other C-suite staff across U.S. and Canadian pension plans. Trustees, vendors and other outsiders are not eligible to attend.

According to NCPERS, the summit sessions will cover skills such as leadership, strategic planning, communications, human capital management, innovation and recruitment and retention—with an emphasis on so-called “soft skills” useful for fostering learning and growth.

Summit Agenda

The event will include two separate tracks, one for pension CEOs and one for CIOs. The CEO track will host the following discussions:

CEO Evaluations: Best Practices;
Plan and Plan Sponsor Entanglements: Governance and Structural Difficulties;
Tricks of the Trade;
Who Has Your Data?;
Effective Use of Dashboards and Visualization Platforms;
Are We Preparing Our Participants for Financial Success in Retirement?;
Embracing Neurodiversity for Competitive Advantage; and
Operational Excellence: The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Experience.

The CIO track will include the following discussions:

Benchmarking Public Plan Costs: How Do We Rank?;
Investment Consultants: A Conversation on Practices that Work;
Technology to Enhance Efficiencies in the Back Office;

Co-Investments in Private Markets: A Candid Discussion;
Private Credit: Issuers’ Perspectives;
How to Protect Against Inflation with Imperfect Tools;
Simplifying Portfolios: What Are We Getting for Complexity?; and
Succession Planning & Mentoring Junior Investment Staff.