Venezuelan business woman Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg set out to pioneer the outsourced chief investment officer industry in the late 1980s as a way to help institutions manage their assets at a more affordable price than building in-house management teams. Having served as CIO of the pension investment division of the World Bank for nearly 10 years, her global mastery of the retirement system was unparalleled. That led Ochoa-Brillembourg and five former World Bank senior pension investment team members to start Arlington, Virginia-based Strategic Investment Group in 1987. The firm’s fund-of-funds business manages $4.37 billion of the firm’s overall $37.2 billion, primarily through customized portfolios…
