Anastasia Titarchuk named Chief Investment Officer of the New York State Common Retirement Fund

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced his appointment of Anastasia Titarchuk as Chief Investment Officer [CIO] of the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Titarchuk has served as the Fund’s interim CIO since July 2018.

Titarchuk was born in Moscow and moved to the U.S. as a teenager. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. Over the course of two decades she worked in a variety of roles on Wall Street, including emerging markets, interest rates trading and equity derivatives marketing. She joined DiNapoli’s office in 2011 as part of the Fund’s ARS team and served as Deputy CIO under then-CIO Vicki Fuller. She was appointed interim-CIO in July 2018.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund is the third largest public pension fund in the United States, with an audited value of $210.5 billion as of March 31, 2019. The Fund holds and invests the assets of the New York State and Local Retirement System on behalf of more than one million state and local government employees and retirees and their beneficiaries. 

The Fund has a diversified portfolio of public and private equities, fixed income, real estate and alternative instruments and has consistently been ranked as one of the best managed and best funded plans in the nation. "Through prudent management, the Fund has maintained its status as one of the nation’s strongest and best funded and I know that Anastasia will continue to uphold high standards for the pension system’s 1.1 million members, retirees and their beneficiaries.”