Global Pension Crisis: Unfunded Liabilities and How We Can Fill the Gap

About the Author

Rich Marin, after a long career on Wall Street, now serves as President and CEO of the New York Wheel, a major project being built on New York Harbor at the “Gateway to America.” He also teaches finance and asset management at The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University where he is a Clinical Professor of Asset Management. He has worked as a senior finance professional and management committee member for three major firms (Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank, and Bear Stearns), ran a $3 billion distressed property company (AFI-USA), and launched both a successful venture capital fund (Beehive Ventures) and a distressed mortgage hedge fund (Ironwood Global). He has recently taken on expert witness work in securities litigation representing mostly pension funds in their hedge fund and securities finance activities. He is also an advisor to several specialized consulting firms including RogersCasey and Penbridge Advisors, a leading Pension Risk Transfer firm.

As a senior Wall Street executive, entrepreneur, and teacher of the investment practicum, he writes for several professional publications, the Cornell Business Journal, Cornell Alumni Magazine, and contributes as a columnist for COO Connect, a professional hedge fund peer network website. Rich began writing in the 1980s for pleasure, and in 1998 wrote a story that was selected from 3,000 entrants by HBO and was subsequently made into the top-rated (by The New York Times and Daily News) Subway Stories ...