• The SWIB Podcast: Wisconsin Retirement System Insights

  • By: SWIB Staff
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The SWIB Podcast: Wisconsin Retirement System Insights

By: SWIB Staff
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  • News and insights about the complex, prudent, and disciplined investment strategies the State of Wisconsin Investment Board has put in place to help grow and protect the assets of the Wisconsin Retirement System. Navigating today’s financial markets takes innovative thinking to design and implement investment strategies that control risk while generating reasonable returns. In a time when public pension funds across the country are struggling with issues related to underfunding, SWIB has helped fuel one of the only fully funded pension systems in the U.S. Join us as we talk about the importance of managing assets in a more challenging environment and optimizing cost over the long term on behalf of the more than 642,000 current and former state and local government employees and their families who rely on the WRS for some of their retirement security. SWIB is recognized as a premier investment organization because of its strong management of the trust funds of the WRS and several other smaller trust funds. SWIB has been successful in generating respectable returns to help ensure the WRS is able to meet its obligations today and in the future.
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Episodes
  • 30. Why Bet on One Horse When You Can Back the Whole Stable, with Chase Nicolson

    30. Why Bet on One Horse When You Can Back the Whole Stable, with Chase Nicolson
    Oct 2 2024
    Multi-strategy funds have become more popular over the years. But what exactly is a multi- strategy fund and how does SWIB’s implementation of a multi-strategy portfolio benefit the overall investment strategy for the Wisconsin Retirement System? In this episode of The SWIB Podcast, SWIB Senior Portfolio Manager Chase Nicholson explains what a multi-strategy portfolio is, why SWIB has the portfolio, and how that portfolio fits into the long-term investment strategy for the WRS.
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    25 mins
  • 29. An In-Depth Look at the Economy with SWIB Head Economist and Asset & Risk CIO Todd Mattina

    29. An In-Depth Look at the Economy with SWIB Head Economist and Asset & Risk CIO Todd Mattina
    Jul 31 2024
    Despite interest rates that remain high and inflation that is still above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, the U.S. stock market continues a bull run, unemployment remains relatively low, and wage growth has been steady. So, what does all that mean for investors and what will the second half of the year bring as geopolitical issues continue to grab headlines and we head into a November presidential election? In this episode of The SWIB Podcast, SWIB’s Head Economist and Asset and Risk Allocation Chief Investment Officer Todd Mattina talks about what all these headline grabbing issues mean for investors, the economy, and the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS). Todd will share his thoughts on the first half of 2024 and his perspective on what the economic outlook is for the remainder of the year.
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    38 mins
  • 28. The Role of Passive Strategies in SWIB's Investment Strategy

    28. The Role of Passive Strategies in SWIB's Investment Strategy
    Jun 19 2024
    SWIB has implemented a diverse and sophisticated investment strategy for the Wisconsin Retirement System, or WRS. The Core Trust Fund, the larger of the two WRS trust funds, holds investments in public equities, fixed income, real estate, and private markets. That investment strategy also includes a mix of active and passive strategies. In this episode of the SWIB Podcast, learn more about the role passive strategies like synthetic replication, passive exposure management, and leverage implementation have in helping keep the WRS fully funded. Find out how SWIB’s use of securities finance, collateral optimization, and liquidity management benefit the WRS trust funds. Finally, hear how SWIB’s innovative spirit played an important role in the founding of the Global Peer Financing Association and how the association has helped SWIB engage in a variety of securities finance activities and promote best practices and knowledge sharing with peers across the world.
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    39 mins
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