Complication of Caryl Anne Francia's features in the print edition of Pensions & Investments.

A collection of profiles and other stories on institutional investors

Posted on by Caryl Anne Francia

I figured I’d try to better organize my portfolio of profiles for Pensions & Investments, but through a blog post on my personal website.

Quite frankly, profile or narrative writing was what pushed me to pursuing a professional career in journalism. For a profile I wrote on an artist during my junior year of high school, a former editor for The New York Times gave me high marks — and a first place award at Baruch College’s Newsies program in November 2018.

I thank everyone who has taken the time to let me interview them — and everyone who edited or read what I’d consider art.

Last updated June 2.

Endowments and foundations

E&Fs are my main beat. Apologies in advance to foundation PR contacts whose media monitors picked up my blog.

Profiles:

  1. Wesleyan University’s Anne Martin | Retiring June 30
  2. Fondation du Grand Montréal’s Jason Taylor
  3. West Virginia University Foundation’s Jim Bethea
  4. McKnight Foundation’s Elizabeth McGeveran | Leaving June
  5. Kresge Foundation’s John A. Barker
  6. Knight Foundation’s Rebecca Carland
  7. Texas Permanent School Fund’s Robert Borden
  8. The California Wellness Foundation’s Rochelle Witharana
  9. University of Illinois Foundation’s Travis Shore
  10. University of Rochester’s Douglas Phillips | Now retired
  11. Arizona State University Enterprise Partners’ Jeff Mindlin | Now at The Nature Conservancy

Young talent grows, and if you give it the opportunity, feed it and water it — two years go by, five years go by, and they’re not the interns anymore … I tell interns, your job before you leave is you have to find your replacement that you put your name on, that this person that you’re in class with has what it takes. Once it gets momentum, it’s a wonderful thing to watch. You step back, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Robert Borden, Texas Permanent School Fund

Emerging and diverse investment managers

Emerging and diverse managers are also my main beat — while diversity more broadly has been a sub beat.

Influential Women in Institutional Investing

I’ve write a lot of the features to tied P&I‘s annual Influential Women in Institutional Investing program.

Other profiles

These are other features — including one I wrote for P&I‘s annual Best Places to Work in Money Management program.

Features that I’m generally proud of

On talent development, recruitment and retention:

On industry trends, retrospectives and outlooks:

On broader diversity, equity and inclusion:

Special reports I’ve led the writing effort on

I not only wrote profiles and features for these, but I also helped with the copy editing and debugging for the microsites and conference booklets.

In other daily news, select E&F coverage:

E&F stories I wrote — in particular, while I was still the editorial intern: