How Effective Are Investment Consultants for Allocators?
The gap between consultants’ actual and claimed performances was remarkable, says one study, looking at UK-based firms with worldwide reach.
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Choosing Consultants: What Should You Measure?
Sizing up the people you’ll work with to expand your investment capabilities is no easy task.
How CIOs Assemble Outstanding Investment Teams
Leading asset allocators offer insights into their techniques to form and manage top-notch staff.
Asset Management Culture
Diversity Quotas ‘Absolutely’ Work, Ursula Burns Says
The businesswoman striving to diversify the racial and ethnic makeup of corporate boards talks about the most effective strategies.
Asset Management Culture
Raytheon Technologies to Launch Diverse Manager Program
Asset managers for the $110 billion corporate plans should start hiring with race, gender, and other considerations in mind, CIO Robin Diamonte says.
Asset Management Culture
Aiming to Boost Diversity, Canadian Institutions to Monitor Corporate Behavior
A group of funds holding roughly $2.3 trillion say they will make demands on companies whose stocks are in their portfolios.
Opinion
Op-Ed: We Are Still Living in the Jackie Robinson Age of Financial Services
Only a small, select group of Black professionals gets to advance to the C-suites of firms. White men get a lot more leeway. Nickol Hackett, CIO of the Joyce Foundation, lays out how this can be rectified.
Corporate Moves
Texas A&M Foundation Taps Michael Pia for CIO
The former Texas TRS managing director will oversee the roughly $1.9 billion university endowment.
Tough Task: Recruiting Talent for Corporate DB Plans
The small pool of top job openings and the often lower pay than on Wall Street are challenges. Still, doing good and buoying an underfunded plan are strong appeals.
Newsmakers
Help Wanted: Investment Pro for NYC’s Real Estate Holdings
The city’s five public pension funds have a property portfolio worth $18 billion.
Manager Selection
Kentucky Pension System Seeks New CIO
The organization wants a permanent chief to replace David Peden, who left two years ago.