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The 2015 Pension 40: Robin Diamonte

No. 16 Robin Diamonte, Chief Investment Officer / Director of Pension Investments / United Technologies Corp.

By Tyler Davies

December 22, 2015

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Robin Diamonte

Chief Investment Officer / Director of Pension Investments / United Technologies Corp.

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From her perch overseeing $45 billion in the combined pension and savings plan assets of 200,000 employees at United Technologies Corp., and an additional $8 billion in international pension assets, chief investment officer Robin Diamonte, 51, has increasingly engaged in the national debate over retirement income security . Not content to merely redesign the multinational’s $20 billion savings plan by dramatically slashing participant costs and, in 2012, rolling out a lifetime income option that now stands at $800 million, with a goal of $1 billion in participant assets, Diamonte regularly travels to Washington to speak with federal pension officials about such knotty problems as the need for fiduciary oversight to shield retiree assets from heavily sold and often expensive individual retirement accounts. “I want to figure out ways to help people retire, like supporting the [Department of Labor] fiduciary rule,” says the CIO. At the invitation of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, Diamonte spoke in July at the once-in-a-decade White House Conference on Aging on how UTC gets participants to start saving early. She currently serves on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.’s advisory committee looking at the federal agency’s liability stream, investment policy and policy on multiemployer plans, and was recently named to Chicago-based Morningstar’s board of directors.

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