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Former Florida State Board of Administration head Ash Williams is the newest staff adviser for the Idaho Public Employee Retirement System.

Ahead of his September retirement, Maynard reflects on taking PERSI from one of the lowest-ranked public pensions to a serial outperformer.

By holding 7 of the 19 top jobs, white men make up 36.8% of these newsroom leaders. On its own, from a diversity standpoint, that’s…not terrible, actually! As of 2019, 62.9% of American adults were non-Hispanic whites, with white man making up a bit less than half of that share. So while 36% is an over-representation, it’s a relatively small over-representation — especially compared to not that long ago, when these jobs might have been 80-90% white men. 3 of the 25 largest U.S. newspapers. Now, women lead 7 of the top 19 — not yet parity, of course, but a significant improvement i...

Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today’s problems are new. By Joshua Benton@jbenton Feb. 2, 2021, 1:53 p.m. Feb. 2, 2021, 1:53 p.m. My two intellectual loves are history and journalism — alternately, history and its first draft — and I’m always happy to see the two overlap. That’s the case with word that the Internet Archive has digitized nearly the entire back catalog of Editor & Pub...

January 7, 2021 The stickler for a conventional investing style talks about his start in the business.  Bob Maynard Editor’s Note: Bob Maynard is one of the stellar CIOs who will be featured on our upcoming Power 100 list, to be released in February. It’s hard to believe now, but when Bob Maynard first went to the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) to take over the fund as chief investment officer in 1992, the pension system was in terrible shape.  At the time, with just $2.1 billion in assets and a funding level of 62%, it made headlines regularly as one of the worst fu...