Managing Investment Director,
Total Fund Portfolio Management

Sterling Gunn was named managing investment director of the Trust Level Portfolio Management Program in October 2022.

He has extensive experience in total portfolio management for long-term institutional investors, and has been responsible for asset allocation, risk management, and the development of quantitative methods to assess investment strategies. He comes to CalPERS from JSG Advisory, a firm he founded.

Prior to starting his own firm, Sterling served as the senior vice president (co-head of total portfolio strategy) at GIC, which manages Singapore’s foreign reserves, and as the vice president and head, quantitative research, for the CPP Investment Board (CPPIB), which invests the assets of the Canada Pension Plan.

Sterling earned a bachelor of science degree in physics and applied mathematics and an MBA from the University of Toronto. He also has a master’s degree in experimental space science from York University.