Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, Baltimore, hired executive search firm Korn/Ferry International to assist in the system's search for a chief investment officer.
The CIO oversees the investments of the $36 billion system and has full discretion to hire and terminate asset managers.
The previous CIO, Mansco Perry III, left Oct. 31 to become CIO of the $587 million endowment fund of Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. A. Melissa Moye, Maryland deputy treasurer for financial policy, is acting CIO.
The job posting is available on the National Association of State Retirement Administrators' website, www.nasra.org/career.htm#MD2.
Neither R. Dean Kenderdine, system executive director, nor Michael Kennedy, Korn/Ferry managing director and senior client partner, could be reached for further details.
