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In the coming decade, we will need long-term investors to innovate to meet their return objectives, as well as deliver a range of positive externalities to the world. This podcast will seek to showcase how leaders of long-term investors can innovate without getting fired. Ashby Monk and Daniel Adamson interview investment professionals working in long-term investors about the big innovations they have accomplished.
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Send us a text CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer explains why benchmark-led silos are breaking and how CalSTRS is building a “One Fund” Total Portfolio Approach to allocate capital dynamically across public and private markets, as themes like AI and the energy transition cut across everything they do.
Send us a text PGGM Investments CEO reflects on rebooting the fund's 'operating system', shifting from a siloed, mandate-based management to a digitally enabled, incentive-aligned TPA that integrates risk, return, and sustainability.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of AustralianSuper reflects on the origin, challenges and innovations at the core of creating Australia's largest superannuation fund.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of Ontario's pension startup University Pension Plan reflects on the challenges of building a new, mid-size Canadian pension fund.
Send us a text With giant new new SDFs coming to Indonesia and the United States, the former and founding CEO of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund reflects on the challenges of SDF design, governance, and management.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of Arizona's Public Safety Personnel Retirement System details his fund's path to decision-making excellence and a culture of prediction excellence.
Send us a text The CEO and CIO at University of Cambridge Investment Management discusses how she has leveraged Cambridge University's unique sustainability knowledge and networks in order to drive more resilience - and higher performance - into this £4.5B endowment portfolio.
Send us a text The Managing Director of Quantitative Analytics at Fremont Group discusses how this major Single Family Office has tapped neurodiversity in the pursuit of differentiated portfolios that outperform.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of the Construction and Building Unions Superannuation Fund discusses the power of long-term thinking and the connection of his fund's outperformance to the real economy.
Send us a text The Managing Director of Public Markets at San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (SFERS) explains his fund's evolving approach to public equities and reflects on constructing -- and then reconstructing -- the active equities book.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Strategist of the Alberta Investment Management Corp explains his new 'Multi-Model Model' of institutional investment, which reflects a client-centric approach that uses advanced technologies to scale customized portfolios to all clients.
Send us a text After 24 years as Chief Investment Officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, Chris shares his reflections (just days before he retires) on a remarkable career bringing innovation to public pension funds, with particular focus on his experience building three different "innovation labs" inside CalSTRS.
Send us a text The Chief Operating Investment Officer of The California Public Employees Retirement System explains how he invented the Long-Term Investor Fellowship - with a certain neat-o team from Stanford University - to build a new and unique talent pipeline from universities to public pensions.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of The Orange County Employees Retirement System explains how she innovates from within the 'American Model', pushing and persuading her fund's consultants to work on truly innovate opportunities in the ever-changing innovation and venture capital ecosystem.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of The Spencer Foundation Endowment explains the power of evidence-based decision-making and the value of a talented board in selecting an investment model for their endowment that is NOT the Endowment Model.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of the UK's ~$48B Pension Protection Fund offers details on the fund's dynamic capabilities, which has driven significant over-funding and a recent expansion of the fund's mandate.
Send us a text The Deputy-Chief Investment Officer of Australia's Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST) offers details on the process by which REST designed, approved, and began implementing its new 1% allocation, or around $750M and growing, to impact investments.
Send us a text The Executive Director of New York City's Board of Education Retirement System reflects on his plan's 101-year path to reinventing asset-liability modeling via a unique partnership with academic researchers.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of HESTA discusses how the fund achieved 5- and 10-year investment performance that places it among the top 10 in Australia, while ALSO delivering meaningful outcomes in impact investing.
Send us a text The Chief Investment Officer of the Coal Pension Trustees Services Limited discusses how he helped usher in a new world of tech innovation at CPT, and what it means for the fund in terms of performance.
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