Pushing back on fees; Talking to the top guns

Comings and goings: Alaska, New York, Illinois, California, and Connecticutt

What we’re reading: Pushing back on private equity and hedge fund fees

The view from Phoenix: A conversation with Paul Matson, AZ Retirement System

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11/08/2011

Introducing the Skorina Top 50 CIO Salary List

 

Here’s a stripped-down version of our larger database which charts the compensation of the fifty highest-earning chief investment officers.  We don’t recall seeing such a thing elsewhere and we thought it might be of interest to our readers.

Our internal document contains many more names, numbers, and details, but we’re not going to give away all the good stuff.

Top 50 CIO Salaries, FY 2009

 

CIO

Nonprofit

AUM $bn

Total Comp

W2 Comp

Non-W2 Comp

1

Mendillo, Jane

Harvard U (HMC)

27.6

$4,754,379

$3,498,265

$1,256,114

2

Swensen, David F.

Yale U

16.7

$3,795,540

$3,715,724

$79,816

3

Narvekar, Nirmal

Columbia U (CIMC)

6.5

$3,447,953

$1,980,746

$1,467,207

4

Malpass, Scott C.

U Notre Dame

5.2

$2,057,827

$1,532,859

$524,968

5

Hoagland, Laurance

Hewlett Fdn

7.4

$2,015,635

$1,919,117

$96,518

6

Schmid, Mark

U Chicago

5.6

$1,790,730

$1,019,070

$771,660

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Special report – Should smaller endowments and foundations manage their own money?

The Zen of In-sourcing: Can small institutional funds resist the out-sourcers?  Should they even try?

What is the sound of one small institution managing its own money?  It’s not very loud, apparently, compared to the racket from all the people who want to do it for them.

Should smaller tax-exempt funds just give up managing their own portfolios and succumb to the siren song of outsourcing?  I think the answer is: Not necessarily.

In a previous letter I presented mini-case-histories of two smallish college endowments which recently chose to outsource.

In this special issue, I look at the other side: some small funds which have eschewed outsourcing, and are doing just fine, thank you very much.  Reports from the field suggest that resistance to outsourcing may not be futile at all.

Further below: we gather some wisdom from Jack Rich, CIO at Abilene Christian University; and, for you left-brainers, some statistics — my take on how many institutions are in this “small investor” category.

— CAS

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