
Newsmakers
Johns Hopkins University Seeking New CIO
The successful candidate will oversee $9 billion of endowment and pension assets.
Private and public sector plans returned 8.4% in the final quarter, according to RBC Investor Services.
Report says ‘remarkably poor and unreliable’ data on the asset class is a stumbling block for defined benefit plans.
The firm will transfer 85% of its U.S. defined benefit plan obligations to Athene through annuity contracts.
Oliver Morley will become CEO of the U.K.’s Money and Pensions Service.
The portfolio’s market value dropped by more than $2 billion last year to $20.2 billion.
The Royal Mail finally received authorization for a plan it proposed in 2018 after closing its defined benefit plan.
Bill will make plan members top priority when a company becomes insolvent.