Your life was consumed by noise.
Jim Cramer on CNBC franticly gesticulating about the latest 2% “correction”.
A board member asking exhausting questions about the latest non-event in trade negotiations.
A participant wanting to know, ex post, why you invested in a strategy that underperformed over a three-month timeframe.
And yes, even Institutional Investor occasionally stretching for its seventh published story of the day.
Then came the devastating signal: the COVID-19 pandemic.
Everything changed in March. Markets cratered. Investors were homebound. Thousands of people lost their lives to the disease.
As we emerge from the human and financial destruction, there has never been a more important time to speak with your peers and partners, face-to-face, about picking up the pieces. To focus on the strategies and tactics that will allow you to deliver much-needed capital to your participants. And to focus on resetting the theories, practices, and fallacies of institutional investing.
In short, it’s time to ignore the noise – and focus on the essential.
Christopher J. Ailman
CalSTRS
Cheryl D. Alston
Employees' Retirement Fund of the City of Dallas
Corey Amon
State of New Jersey Division of Investments
Jase Auby
Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
Derek Brodersen
Alberta Teachers Retirement Fund
Elizabeth Burton
Hawaii Employees' Retirement System
Gary Bruebaker
formerly Washington State Investment Board
T.J. Carlson
Texas Municipal Retirement System
Scott Chan
CalSTRS
Matthew L. Clark
South Dakota Investment Council
Elizbaeth Crisafi
San Diego City Employees' Retirement System
Bruce H. Cundick
Utah Retirement Systems
James C. Davis
OPTrust
Steve Davis
Sacramento County Employees' Retirement System (SCERS)
Alex Doñé
New York City Retirement Systems
Marcus Frampton
Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation
Dominic J. Garcia
State of New Mexico Public Employees Retirement System
Andrew Greene
Toronto Transit Commission Pension Fund
Paul Greff
Ohio Public Employees Retirement System
James H. Grossman
Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System
David Hunter
North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office
Craig A. Husting
Public School & Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri
Robert Jacksha
New Mexico Educational Retirement Board
Janet Julé
Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees' Pension Plan
David Kaposi
Ontario Power Generation
Farouki Majeed
Ohio School Employees Retirement System
Sam Masoudi
Wyoming Retirement System
Robert M. Maynard
Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho
Scott McIntosh
Ontario Municipal Employees' Retirement System (OMERS)
Daryn Miller
Kern County Employees' Retirement Association
Angela Miller-May
Chicago Public School Teacher's Pension
Molly A. Murphy
Orange County Employees Retirement System
Prabhu Palani
City of San Jose Department of Retirement Services
Andrew C. Palmer
Maryland State Retirement & Pension Systems
Mansco Perry
Minnesota State Board of Investment
Donald Pierce
San Bernardino County Employees' Retirement Association
Timothy Price
Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association
R. Stanley Rupnik
Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois
Stephen Sexauer
San Diego County Employees Retirement Association
David Silber
City of Milwaukee Employees' Retirement System
J. Scott Simon
Colorado Fire & Police Pension Association
Anthony Smith
Seattle City Employees' Retirement System
Robert "Vince" Smith
New Mexico State Investment Council
Jon Spinney
Vestcor Investment Management Corporation
Mario A. Therrien
Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ)
Michael G. Trotsky
Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (MassPRIM)
Tom Tull
Employees Retirement System of Texas
David Veal
City of Austin Employees' Retirement System
David Villa
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Michael Walden-Newman
Nebraska Investment Council
Michael Weinberg
APG Asset Management
Ashbel C. Williams
Florida State Board of Administration
Casey Wolf
Texas County & District Retirement System
Institutional Investors
Katarina Storfer
kstorfer@institutionalinvestor.com
Investment Consultants
Carolyn Leven
carolyn.leven@iiforums.com
Asset Managers