E&W Investment Management Club Guest Speaker Series: Investment Decision Making from a Top 100 Pension Fund with Marc Levine, Chairman, Illinois State Board of Investment (Kellogg, '90)

Name: E&W Investment Management Club Guest Speaker Series: Investment Decision Making from a Top 100 Pension Fund with Marc Levine, Chairman, Illinois State Board of Investment (Kellogg, '90)
Start: 2026-10-01T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-10-01T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Wieboldt Hall, Room 250

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Event (External Speaker) 1Y 2026 2Y Asset Management Evening Evening and Weekend Investment Banking Investment Management JD-MBA MBAi Private Equity Weekend

Thu, Oct 1, 2026

5 PM – 6 PM CDT (GMT-5)

Wieboldt Hall, Room 250

340 E. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60611, United States

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E&W Investment Management Club welcomes Marc Levine, former Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Investment. Marc is the founder and Managing Partner of Chicago Asset Funding, a structured-finance investment firm investing in junior collateralized loan obligations. He also manages a family office. Marc will give a guest lecture on how limited partners make investment decisions, from asset allocation to fund due diligence an fund selection. His presentation at Wieboldt Hall will be followed by a small group dinner at the Capital Grille in Streeterville with ~12 students, as well as Professor Mitchell Petersen. Attendance at the presentation is required to attend the small group dinner.

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/facilities/wieboldt-hall/

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Wieboldt Hall, Room 250

340 E. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60611, United States

Speakers

Marc Levine

Chairman

Illinois State Board of Investment

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-levine-18760244/

Marc Levine is the Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Investment (ISBI), which manages $22 billion on behalf of 140,000 state employees. Marc was a pioneer in the asset-backed securities industry with transactions including the first-ever securitization of precious metals. Marc was the founding principal of Chicago Asset Funding LLC, a AAA-rated structured-finance investment firm that in 2009 was one of the market's largest investors in junior collateralized loan obligations. Prior to that Marc ran similar vehicles for ABN AMRO and Continental Bank in Chicago and began his career in auditing and consulting at KPMG.

Marc earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, received his B.S. from the University of Florida and is a Certified Public Accountant. Marc has also served on the S&P Dow Jones Indices US Advisory Panel, the Illinois Teachers Retirement System pension board and numerous corporate boards, including the leasing subsidiaries of General Motors.

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