The Don't Get Fired Podcast by Stanford Long-Term Investing

Send 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 

Send a text The Chief Investment Officer of the San Jose City Retirement System discusses how he finally got this Silicon Valley-based pension fund into venture capital, revealing a series of fascinating (and no doubt soon-to-be-copied) implementation innovations, twists, and turns, while also aligning his strategy with the unique identity of San Jose and the SJCRS. Enjoy! 

Send a text The Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System discusses her fund's $1B bet on emerging managers. 

Send a text The Chief Investment Officer of Australian Retirement Trust discusses the mega-merger of equals (QSuper and SunSuper) that led to this new, massive fund... and reflects on the challenge of capturing all the benefits of this new scale.