Vlad Barbalat
Vlad Barbalat is President of Global Risk and Capital Solutions and Chief Investment Officer of Liberty Mutual Group, overseeing the company's commercial and specialty insurance, reinsurance, and investment management businesses. He leads Liberty Mutual Investments, which deploys over $120 billion in permanent capital from the firm's mutual insurance balance sheet across public and private markets globally. He joined Liberty Mutual in 2017 as Head of Investment Strategy and was appointed to his current role in 2026 after previously serving as President and CIO of Liberty Mutual Investments since 2021. Prior to Liberty Mutual, he spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs in leadership roles across proprietary investing and later served as a senior portfolio manager at GMO.
“We are about $120 billion in capital. And what's interesting about our platform is that it allows us an incredibly unique way of behaving as investors, which is to say we are focused not on any form of third-party capital.”
Source→“We operate much more like a GP in that way and frankly look to hire people that come from GPs or operators rather than just a traditional LP background.”
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