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Speaker
Gary Hutch, executive director of investment services, Saskatchewan’s Public Employees Pension Plan
Gary Hutch is the executive director of investment services. He has 25 years of institutional investment experience and joined PEBA in 2005. Since 2016, Hutch has led investment strategy, implementation, monitoring and reporting activities for the Public Employees Pension Plan (PEPP) and Municipal Employees’ Pension Plan (MEPP). He oversees the work of more than 70 external investment managers in asset classes ranging from Canadian and foreign equities to real estate to private markets. PEPP has 67,000 members and more than $12 billion in assets and is Canada’s largest defined contribution pension plan. MEPP has 26,000 members and $3 billion in assets.
He is a chartered professional accountant and has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Regina.