John Hawie Named To Head LWCC Investments

Baton Rouge, LA (CompNewsNetwork) - John W. Hawie has been hired by Louisiana Workers? Compensation Corporation (LWCC) as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. He left a position as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Commerce Group in Webster, Mass., to take the newly created LWCC post.

Hawie was employed by Commerce Group since February 2003 and was responsible for $2.5 billion in fixed income and equity investments. Prior to that, he served as Team Leader/Portfolio Manager for General Re-New England Asset Management in Farmington, Conn.

No stranger to Baton Rouge or Louisiana State University, Hawie was a member of the Board of Directors of the Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF) from 1997 to 2004. TAF is the fund-raising arm for LSU Athletics.

He earned his B.A. degree, with concentrations in finance and philosophy, from Emory University in Atlanta. He received his MBA degree, with a concentration in finance, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, then four years later attained his Chartered Financial Analysts degree.

Hawie has extensive experience in property-and-casualty company asset management in the United States and Europe. He was previously employed by General Re-CKAG Reinsurance and Investment S.à r.l. in Luxembourg; General Reinsurance Corporation in Stamford, Conn.; and the Investment and Banking Division of the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer.