Michael Ashmore is a Director with the External Managers Program at OMERS, the $97 billion defined benefit pension plan serving Ontario’s municipal employees. Based in New York City, he co-manages a pool of assets with a mission of helping meet OMERS retirement income obligations to its nearly 500,000 pension plan members. Prior to joining OMERS Capital Markets in 2015, Michael was a Vice President at The Carlyle Group – DGAM, where he led research on investments in various hedge fund strategies. Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Economics with Honours, from the University of Waterloo, and is a CFA Charterholder. He was selected as one of Chief Investment Officer magazine’s “2016