The 300 Club has announced Ron Barin as its latest member.
Barin is vice president and chief investment officer, pension plan investments, at lightweight metals company Alcoa in New York where he is responsible for the investment strategy of the firm’s US retirement benefits plans as well as the Alcoa Foundation, overseeing total assets of $13bn.
Before joining Alcoa, he was senior director, pension investments at Pfizer, responsible for $22bn in the pharmaceutical firm’s global benefits plans and foundation. He has also served in treasury financial risk management roles at Estee Lauder and Unilever.
300 Club chairman Lars Dijkstra said: “Ron is currently responsible for investing assets on behalf of a significant workforce and during his career he has gained extensive experience in this regard for a number of leading global companies. With his experience Ron steered the Alcoa Pension Plan and Alcoa Foundation from the typical 60/40 asset mix to a more long-term, diversifying portfolio that is directly tied to its strategic objectives. I am sure he will be of great value for the 300 Club.”
The 300 Club is an independent group made up of investment professionals from across the globe formed in response to raise “uncomfortable and fundamental” questions about the foundations of the investment landscape and investing.
The group publishes a series of papers which focus on some of the challenges facing investors, including dynamic asset allocation, risk management, manager selection, principal-agency relationship, long-horizon investing and client engagement. It also writes a quarterly column for portfolio institutional.
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