Recommendations from the Systems
Terri Sanchez, Executive Director - SERS
Bryan Lewis, Chief Investment Officer - SERS
Recommendations from the Systems
Glen Grell, Executive Director - PSERS
James Grossman Jr., Chief Investment Officer - PSERS
Tools for Cost Saving and Results of Costs and Fees Analysis
Dr. Ashby Monk, Executive Director - Global Projects Center, Stanford University
Tools for Cost Saving and Results of Costs and Fees Analysis
Dr. Marcel Staub - Founding Partner and CEO, Novarca Group
The Collective Wisdom in Managing Public Pension Assets
Stephen Nesbitt, Chief Executive Officer - Cliffwater, LLC
Public Pension Strategies for Reducing Costs
Dr. Charley Ellis - Investment Consultant
Preliminary Analysis of Pennsylvania Pension Systems
Dr. Ashby Monk, Executive Director - Global Projects Center, Stanford University
Private Equity Investment Strategies
Dr. Tim Jenkinson, Professor of Finance - Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Private Equity Analysis
Dr. Ludovic Phalippou, Professor of Finance - Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Evaluating Active Management vs. Indexing
Mr. Craig Lazzara, Managing Director and Global Head of Index Investment Strategy and
Ms. Aye Soe, Managing Director, Global Research & Design - Standard & Poor Dow Jones Indices
Peer Approaches to Investment Strategies
Mr. Matthew Clark, State Investment Officer - South Dakota Investment Council
Mr. Robert M. Maynard, Chief Investment Officer - Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho
Consolidated State Investment Boards
Ms. Rochelle Klaskin, Interim Executive Director/Chief Legal Counsel and
Mr. David Villa, Chief Investment Officer - State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Mr. Ashbel Williams, Executive Director & CIO - Florida State Board of Administration
Overview of Public Plans Database Analysis
Mr. Jean Pierre Aubry, Associate Director of State & Local Research - Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Benchmarking Best Practices
Ms. Kristen Doyle, CFA, Partner, Retirement and Investment - Aon Hewitt
Alternative Investment Asset Allocation
Dr. Gregory W. Brown, Professor of Finance, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar, and Director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise - University of North Carolina
The Importance of Transparency in Lowering Costs and Aligning Interests
Dr. Ludovic Phalippou, Associate Professor of Finance - Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Perspectives on Transparency in Public Sector Pensions
Jennifer Choi, Managing Director - Institutional Limited Partners Association
Lorelei Graye, Principal - Leodoran Financial
Renee Astphan, Senior Investment Officer - Rhode Island Treasury
Stress Testing
David Draine, Senior Officer - The Pew Charitable Trusts
Dr. Chester Spatt - Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ken Kent, FSA, FCA, MAAA, EA Principal Consulting Actuary - Cheiron
Bob Stein, former Chair - Society of Actuaries Blue Ribbon Panel
Joseph Newton, FSA, MAAA, FCA, EA, Pension Market Leader - Gabriel Roeder Smith & Co.