DuPont de Nemours

DuPont has not publicly named a dedicated Chief Investment Officer for its corporate pension plan. CEO Lori Koch holds ultimate oversight responsibility, with the plan administered through DuPont's corporate treasury and a board-level investment committee. The absence of a publicly profiled CIO suggests the team operates with low external visibility, consistent with many corporate pension sponsors.

The plan divides assets across public equities, fixed income, real assets, and a private equity program that includes both fund commitments and direct venture co-investments. The 2023 10-K reported a target allocation weighted toward fixed income and liability-hedging assets, consistent with a mature pension plan managing retiree obligations. The venture and real-asset sleeves are smaller carve-outs directed toward industrial technologies adjacent to DuPont's operating business.

The pension participates in both direct venture investments and limited-partner fund commitments. Its direct activity focuses on industrial technology, advanced materials, and energy-transition startups — sectors where DuPont's internal R&D can inform diligence. Fund commitments add geographic and stage diversification beyond what the direct program targets.

The DuPont de Nemours, Inc. pension plan is entirely separate from the Alfred I. duPont Charitable Trust and The Nemours Foundation, neither of which are pension beneficiaries. The Trust primarily funds Nemours Children's Health, and the Foundation maintains the Winterthur Museum and Nemours Estate in Delaware. These entities hold historic family wealth distinct from the corporate pension pool.

The 2019 breakup split DowDuPont into three standalone companies — DuPont, Dow, and Corteva — with each entity responsible for its allocated share of the legacy pension liabilities and plan assets. DuPont retained the pension obligations tied to its materials and electronics business segments, and the post-separation plan has operated independently with its own investment strategy and governance.

The plan has not published an exclusion list, but its historical venture and real-asset allocations suggest limited appetite for consumer internet, pure-play software, and healthcare services — sectors distant from DuPont's industrial and materials-science core. The pension appears to apply an adjacency filter, favoring deals where DuPont's operating divisions can contribute technical insight.

The Vanguard Group and BlackRock collectively own roughly 20% of DuPont's public shares (public record). As large institutional shareholders, they hold no direct governance role over the pension plan, but their presence incentivizes transparency in corporate financial disclosures including pension funding status, which DuPont reports quarterly.