Pensions & Investments – Ashbel C. Williams Jr. is possibly the only former hedge fund manager now leading a major pension fund. He was hired as executive director and chief investment officer of the Florida State Board of Administration in 2008 directly from New York-based Fir Tree Partners, where he was responsible for investor relations and business development.
Since then, he has led the FSBA to make its first hedge fund investments, just as years ago when, working as a Florida legislative aide, he was instrumental in the FSBA making its first equity allocation.
