The Ontario Pension Board is appointing Andrew Tambone as chief investment officer.

In the role, Tambone will be responsible for overseeing the OPB’s relationship with its asset manager the Investment Management Corp. of Ontario and its investment portfolio performance. He’ll join the OPB in July and will succeed current CIO Chris Kautzky.

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His most recent role is vice-president of investments and funding at the Alberta Teachers Retirement Fund and, prior to that, he was CIO at the Special Forces Pension Plan Corp. and chief risk officer at the Alberta Investment Management Corp.

“I am very excited to welcome Andrew to the OPB team,” said Darwin Bozek, president and chief executive officer at the OPB, in a press release. “I am confident that his leadership style, comprehensive investment executive experience, strong relationship management abilities and his expertise in asset allocation, portfolio construction, asset-liability management, fixed income and risk management will serve OPB and our stakeholders extremely well in the years ahead.”

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