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The 2015 Pension 40: Robin Diamonte
No. 16 Robin Diamonte, Chief Investment Officer / Director of Pension Investments / United Technologies Corp.


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.
![]() 2. John & Laura Arnold Laura and John Arnold Foundation ![]() 3. Chris Christie New Jersey ![]() 4. Randi Weingarten AmericanFederation of Teachers ![]() 5. Phyllis Borzi U.S. Department of Labor |
![]() 6. Kevin de León California ![]() 7. Alejandro García Padilla Commonwealth ofPuerto Rico ![]() 8. Laurence Fink BlackRock ![]() 9. Rahm Emanuel Chicago ![]() 10. Sean McGarvey North AmericanBuilding Trades Unions |
![]() 11. John Kline Minnesota ![]() 12. J. Mark Iwry U.S. Treasury Department ![]() 13. Damon Silvers AFL-CIO ![]() 14. Jeffrey Immelt General Electric Co. ![]() 15. Joshua Gotbaum Brookings Institution |
![]() 16. Robin Diamonte United Technologies Corp. ![]() 17. Mark Mullet Washington ![]() 18. Terry O'Sullivan Laborers' International Union of North America ![]() 19. Raymond Dalio Bridgewater Associates ![]() 20. Ted Wheeler Oregon |
![]() 21. Thomas Nyhan Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund ![]() 22. Karen Ferguson & Karen Friedman Pensions Rights Center ![]() 23. Randy DeFrehn National Coordinating Committee forMultiemployer Plans ![]() 24. Robert O'Keef Motorola Solutions ![]() 25. Caitlin Long Morgan Stanley |
![]() 26. Kenneth Feinberg The Law Offices of Kenneth R. Feinberg ![]() 27. Orrin Hatch Utah ![]() 28. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Center for Retirement Initiatives, Georgetown University ![]() 29. Ian Lanoff Groom Law Group ![]() 30. Joshua Rauh Stanford Graduate School of Business |
![]() 31. Ted Eliopoulos California Public Employees' Retirement System ![]() 32. Edward (Ted) Siedle Benchmark Financial Services ![]() 33. Teresa Ghilarducci New School for Social Research ![]() 34. Denise Nappier Connecticut ![]() 35. W. Thomas Reeder Jr. Pension BenefitGuaranty Corp. |
![]() 36. Hank Kim National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems ![]() 37. Paul Singer Elliott Management Corp. ![]() 38. Bailey Childers National PublicPension Coalition ![]() 39. Amy Kessler Prudential Financial ![]() 40. Judy Mares U.S. Labor Department |