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August 13, 2025 – NCPERS, University of Chicago Announce NextGen Competition
December 10, 2022 – Johara Farhadieh Named a Top Pension Chief Investment Officer
December 31, 2020 – All-Star Chief Investment Officers
January 1, 2021 – 2021 Leadership Award Winners
April 29, 2021 – ISBI Wins DEI Award alongside W.K. Kellogg Foundation
November 29, 2018 – ISBI Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer Makes 40 Under 40
July 3, 2018 – ISBI Appoints New Exec Director
July 20, 2017 – Big State Pension Takes a Hatchet to Hedge Funds
January 3, 2018 – Mr. Passive on Lowering Costs, Chasing Alpha
June 7, 2017 – New York, Illinois Pension Funds Say Hedge Funds Fees too High
June 7, 2017 – Pension Plans, Hedge Funds, and the Way Forward
November 18, 2016 – State of Illinois Pulls $2.4 Billion From Active Managers
November 15, 2016 – Hedge Fund Love Affair is Ending for U.S. Pensions, Endowments
July 18, 2024 – ISBI Ranks Second in Nation for Private Equity Returns
July 1, 2022 – ISBI Earns Highest Private Equity Returns of any Public Pension Fund for Third Year Running
June 19, 2021 – ISBI Earns Highest Private Equity Returns of any Public Pension Fund
July 1, 2021 – ISBI Ranks #1 in American Investment Council Public Pension Study
July 21, 2020 – ISBI Ranks #1 in American Investment Council Public Pension Study
September, 29 2021 – ISBI Executive Director on Diverse Money Manager Strategy
March 24, 2021 – ISBI Cuts Allocations to Multisector Credit, TIPS
July 3, 2018 – Johara Farhadieh Named New Executive Director at ISBI
March 29, 2018 – The Rise of Passive Strategies in Public Pension
February 7, 2018 – Retiring Hedge Funds: Pension Plan Investing Strategies
May 5, 2024 – ISBI Named to DEIC Power 100 List of Allocators
September 29, 2021 – ISBI Executive Director on Diverse Money Manager Strategy
February 1, 2021 – LPS Step Up the Pressure for GPS to Make Real Progress in Diversity
January 31, 2018 – Why Illinois Got Out of the Hedges
November 15, 2016 – Illinois Reduces Reliance on Active Managers
October 17, 2016 – The Dying Business of Picking Stocks
September 16, 2016 – Illinois State Pension Board Stops Trying to Beat the Market
March, 30 2016 – Investors Pull Cash From Hedge Funds as Returns Lag Market