Fiduciary Investors Series

About Stephen Kotkin Stephen Kotkin is the John P Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the co-director of the program in history and the practice of diplomacy and the director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He established the Princeton department’s Global History initiative and workshop, and teaches the graduate...

About Jeff Wendling Jeff Wendling became president and chief executive officer (CEO) of HOOPP on April 1, 2020. He has 30 years of investment management experience and has been with HOOPP since 1998. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he had served as HOOPP’s executive vice president and chief investment officer since 2018. Before that, he spent more than six years as co-CIO. He began his career at...

About Andrew Parry Parry is head of sustainable investment at Newton Investment Management. He was previously head of sustainable investing at Hermes Investment Management, developing the firm’s impact investing capabilities, and aligning its funds to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He previously held roles as head of equities and impact investing at Hermes, and before this as CEO of Hermes...

About Michelle Ostermann Michelle Ostermann is responsible for the overall management and continuing development of the Railway Pension Scheme’s investment management capability. Her primary focus is to ensure it attracts and retains the best possible talent to achieve the long-term investment goals. She joined Railpen in January 2019 as chief fiduciary officer and was appointed managing director...

About Ash Williams   Ash Williams has earned a reputation for being able to head into the stormiest of investment markets and still show positive returns that outperform benchmarks and impress colleagues. As executive director and chief investment officer for the Florida State Board of Administration, Williams is responsible for managing approximately $200 billion in assets, including those of the...

About John Claisse John Claisse joined Albourne in July 1996, relocated from London to San Francisco in July 2013 and became Albourne Group CEO in August 2015. He is an equity partner and member of Albourne’s executive committee and also chairs the firm’s corporate planning council, which comprises Albourne’s function and region heads. Claisse helped develop the firm’s proprietary risk analytics a...

About Ben Meng Yu (Ben) Meng rejoined CalPERS in January 2019 as chief investment officer (CIO). He oversees an investment office of nearly 400 employees and manages investment portfolios of roughly $400 billion, including the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund and affiliate funds. Yu, a U.S. citizen born in China, returned to CalPERS after more than three years as the deputy CIO at the State Admin...

About Geoffrey Rubin Geoff Rubin is responsible for overall fund-level investment strategy and heads the total portfolio management (TPM) department – the operational arm of CPP Investments’ investment planning committee, with overall management accountability for the oversight and management of the fund’s investment portfolio. He joined CPP Investments in 2011, with the inception of TPM, and has...

About Esther Duflo Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social...

In this Fiduciary Investors series podcast Amanda White talks to Joel Prohin who is director of the portfolio management division at Caisse des Depots in France. Prohin heads the portfolio management team and is responsible for €140 billion across fixed income, equities, real estate and private equity. We talk about how Caisse is positioning the portfolio during this time of uncertainty and how su...

In this Fiduciary Investors series podcast Amanda White talks to Iain Begg, Professsorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, about the economic and social turmoil of COVID-19 and the robustness of the EU to deal with this economically. About Iain Begg Iain Begg is a Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Ec...

In this Fiduciary Investors Series podcast Amanda White talks to Henry Richards, who is the project lead on the Future of the Corporation at the British Academy. The discussion is part of our exploration of purposeful companies and the premise that we need to redefine business in the 21stcentury to build trust between corporations, investors and society.   About Henry Richards Henry Richards, who...

In this Fiduciary Investors Series podcast Amanda White talks to chief executive of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Janine Guillot, about stakeholder capitalism and the role investors can play in shifting the dial. We discuss the value SASB can play as a tool for decision making and how stakeholder issues can impact performance. Guillot says the key lever to help re-establish trust...

In this Fiduciary Investors Series podcast Amanda White talks to Professor Cameron Hepburn,  Professor of Environmental Economics and the director of the economics sustainability programme at the University of Oxford.   About Cameron Hepburn Cameron Hepburn is the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He...

In this Fiduciary Investors series podcast Amanda White talks to Princeton University’s Professor Stephen Kotkin about the fragility of the global political economy and the potential end of globalisation.   The podcast discusses the limitations of risk management systems used by many investors and the need for a new risk framework that looks beyond a linear construct to enable investors to better...