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The SWIB Podcast: Wisconsin Retirement System Insights

The SWIB Podcast: Wisconsin Retirement System Insights

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 News and insights about the complex, prudent, and disciplined investment strategies the State of Wisconsin Investment Board has put in place to help grow and protect the assets of the Wisconsin Retirement System. Navigating today’s financial markets takes innovative thinking to design and implement investment strategies that control risk while generating reasonable returns. In a time when public pension funds across the country are struggling with issues related to underfunding, SWIB has helped fuel one of the only fully funded pension systems in the U.S. Join us as we talk about the importance of managing assets in a more challenging environment and optimizing cost over the long term on behalf of the more than 642,000 current and former state and local government employees and their families who rely on the WRS for some of their retirement security. SWIB is recognized as a premier investment organization because of its strong management of the trust funds of the WRS and several other smaller trust funds. SWIB has been successful in generating respectable returns to help ensure the WRS is able to meet its obligations today and in the future.©2024 by State of Wisconsin Investment Board Economics Personal Finance Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • 36. Part II - How is A.I. Being Used at SWIB to Benefit WRS Participants? (Dec. 29, 2025)

    36. Part II - How is A.I. Being Used at SWIB to Benefit WRS Participants? (Dec. 29, 2025)
    Dec 29 2025
    For decades, SWIB has used the best tools available to generate solid returns and provide stable retirement income for the participants of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS). While the tools may have changed over the decades, the mission certainly has not. But now, with the advent of artificial intelligence and large language models, the information landscape is changing faster than ever before. In this episode of The SWIB Podcast, hear from Cefe Quesada, SWIB’s chief technology officer, and Salah Khalaf, senior portfolio manager, about how SWIB staff is using AI to augment their ability to process information, identify risks, and make decisions, all with an eye to good governance, ethics, and transparency ̶ helping the WRS remain fully funded and well-positioned to deliver on its promise to over 692,000 participants This is part two in our two-part series about A.I., so don’t forget to check out episode 35 for a grounding in what these tools are, how they work, and what it means for society.
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    28 mins
  • SWIB Market Update - Q4 2025 (Dec. 18, 2025)

    SWIB Market Update - Q4 2025 (Dec. 18, 2025)
    Dec 18 2025
    Each quarter, hear from SWIB staff about the economy, the markets, and how the Wisconsin Retirement System trust funds are impacted. Hear how SWIB is working to help the Wisconsin Retirement System remain among the nation’s most resilient pension funds – growing and protecting participants’ benefits and giving them peace of mind to focus on work, life, and the future. In this market update, we welcome back SWIB’s Head Economic and Asset & Risk Allocation Chief Investment Officer Todd Mattina to talk about the issues that impacted the markets through the fourth quarter of the year and what we might expect as we make our way through the final weeks of 2025.
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    15 mins
  • 35. Part I - What is A.I., and What Does It Mean for the WRS and Its Participants? (Dec. 3, 2025)

    35. Part I - What is A.I., and What Does It Mean for the WRS and Its Participants? (Dec. 3, 2025)
    Dec 3 2025
    Public pension systems have always balanced two big priorities: delivering secure retirements to members and safeguarding assets for the long term. Now, artificial intelligence, or AI, is entering the picture. Some funds are already experimenting with generative AI to sift through mountains of unstructured data in seconds. Others are deploying chatbots to handle routine questions, and many are grappling with governance, ethics, and transparency in these powerful new tools. In this first of two new episodes of The SWIB Podcast, Cefe Quesada, SWIB’s chief technology officer, and Salah Khalaf, senior portfolio manager, discuss what’s working, what’s next, and how public pension funds can embrace AI while keeping transparency and performance front and center and helping the WRS remain fully funded and well-positioned to deliver on its promise to over 692,000 participants.
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    26 mins
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