Christopher J. Ailman
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Feb
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Thank you.
Honored to be here.
Enjoy it.
Governance in public funds really does drive return and it drives the CIO and the team to
One of the early decisions that board made in literally the 1990s before I got there was to delegate broad authority to run the investment portfolio to the staff.
At the time, it was very cutting edge in the States, but they were modeling it after, sure enough, the Canadian model, even though we didn't call it back then.
That's what attracted me to the role.
The other thing was I knew some of the core of the staff.
It was a fairly small team.
It was back then it was a hundred billion dollar fund.
Only 35 people.
But I knew that I wanted to take us from kind of a sleepy, small shop to a world-class institution and running a good chunk of the assets in-house.
And that's what we achieved over that time period.
I'm very proud to say that we moved from the number three to the second largest fund in the U.S.A.,
And I think built a consistent track record of being above median to top quartile among public funds.
In any portfolio, asset allocation does really explain close to 90% of the return.
So when I got there, the fund was roughly about a 75, 30, 25 asset to debt mix.
Didn't have much in the way of private markets.
And that was my big push was to, and I told them that when I joined, was to move bigger into private equity, real estate.
Down the road came opportunities like infrastructure and private debt much later.
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