The Fiftyfaces Podcast 43. Rod June - A Roadmap for Inclusion and Change
Nov 23, 2020
41:49
Rod June is Chief Investment Officer of the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System, (which has $19.5 bn in AUM), where he has spent over 8 years. He previously held the same title at the Hawaii Employees Retirement System, where he spent over 4 years.
In this podcast we discuss Rod's long history of public service in public pension funds, how he entered finance and some of the key influences on his decisions. We focus for a time on the issues at the forefront of his mind as a CIO of a public fund today, including where the decision making really resides, the need to maintain a long-term perspective and the importance of building a diverse and resilient portfolio. He talks about how he has shored up his team and approach amid pandemic disruptions and how he has carefully crafted a roadmap for inclusion. This is the most astonishing part of this podcast - the clear and systematic way that Rod builds an environment that fosters inclusion and enables "crossing over" into new communities. There is something in it for all of us.
In this podcast we discuss Rod's long history of public service in public pension funds, how he entered finance and some of the key influences on his decisions. We focus for a time on the issues at the forefront of his mind as a CIO of a public fund today, including where the decision making really resides, the need to maintain a long-term perspective and the importance of building a diverse and resilient portfolio. He talks about how he has shored up his team and approach amid pandemic disruptions and how he has carefully crafted a roadmap for inclusion. This is the most astonishing part of this podcast - the clear and systematic way that Rod builds an environment that fosters inclusion and enables "crossing over" into new communities. There is something in it for all of us.