Chief Investment Officer
also referred to as: chief investment officers
11 statements across 11 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2017 by Kip McDaniel · said 14 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Kip McDaniel (9), Ted Seides (4), Chris Ailman (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2019 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
Everything said about Chief Investment Officer, oldest first
Aug 7, 2017 positive
CIOs name Canadian and Australian funds as most respected peers
“The question I ask in every meeting with CIOs is which one of your peers do you respect the most? And there's a lot of commonality there. They'll always say one of the Canadian plans, They'll always mention an Australian or a sort of Nordic style plan and then…”
Sep 18, 2017 positive
Institutional CIOs share due diligence and collaborate more frequently today
“My peers, you know, I'm not afraid to go call another CIO if I hear they might be looking at the same thing, and we'll share due diligence and confirm. You know, I think people are doing that more today, to be honest, than they used to. I don't think there was…”
Jan 28, 2019 neutral
Snider: Becoming a CIO Shifts Work Away from Sourcing and Diligence
“When I move to being a CIO, or if I have the opportunity to move to being a CIO, that's not going to be my primary job. Managing boards. Managing politics in an organization. Managing a team. Managing Team development. Staff development. Making the hard decisi…”
Jul 25, 2022 positive
Friedman: New CIOs must accept high early turnover to reshape their teams
“The first thing they need to do is create their own organization in their own image so they can achieve what their goals are. They were hired to achieve their goals. They weren't hired to work with a team that's already doing everything that needs to be done. …”
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Aug 12, 2024 negative
Samuels: Hiring a 24-year-old founder's son as CIO caused talent collapse
“This founder's son came to work for the company, 24 years old, becomes the CIO. So he's directing all sorts of stuff and managing people who are 20 to 30 years his senior. Of course we saw turnover, we saw cultural issues, we saw redemptions, and turns out the…”
Oct 21, 2024
Briner: A CIO’s daily role is largely operational, not just investing
“It's largely not an investment job. I think people kind of know that, but I'd take it maybe a degree further. There are many functions that make an investment organization work well, and they are all important. Some of them are important because if you step on…”
Mar 10, 2025 negative
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Stutman: Rewarding decision process over outcome produces better long-term decisions
“Start celebrating decision processes that are great processes that produce bad outcomes. What you're going to find is you make for people willing to take more risk, willing to invest their time and energy, hone in and be specific with the process. Long term, t…”
Jun 22, 2026 neutral
Early CIO tenure is exhausting because minor decisions set institutional precedent
“Early on, even the smallest decision can feel very consequential, because you feel like you're establishing the expectations, the path, the process. You think about things a lot, and it's exhausting. Eventually, you've set the path, Some of those little decisi…”
Sep 3, 2026 negative
Seides: Great analysts become CIOs without learning how to manage people
“A great investment analyst becomes a portfolio manager, becomes someone who's a chief investment officer, That doesn't mean they've learned how to lead people and manage people. It's not part of the skill set that they got brought up in, so some of the people …”