CHRIS TOBE, CFA, CAIA has worked for over 15 years with Public Pension plans and is the author of “Kentucky Fried Pensions”. He writes a Wall Street Journal Marketplace Column that regularly covers public pensions. With his firm Stable Value Consultants he has provided project consulting to a number of public pension. From 2008-2012 he served as a Trustee and on the Investment and Audit Committees for the $14 billion Kentucky Retirement Systems. From 2008-2009 he was a Sr. Consultant with NEPC and worked with a number of public pension plans in Oklahoma, Missouri, Michigan and the District of Columbia. From 1997-1999 with the Kentucky State Auditor he published a 40 page report on the investments of both major Kentucky Pension plans. In January 2013 he was a speaker at the Public Pension forum at the Ohio State Law School, and in October 2013 spoke at DePauw University on public pensions. As a public pension trustee in 2010 he completed the Program for Advanced Trustee Studies at Harvard Law School and in 2011 he completed Fiduciary College held at the Rock Center at Stanford University.