Fiduciary responsibility, independence, objectivity, and transparency guide our investment decisions. We believe in, and follow, fiduciary standards for corporate retirement and municipal pension plans.
While most of the financial industry is fighting against taking a fiduciary role for their retirement plan clients, we have made this the cornerstone of our firm services.
Defined Benefit Plans
We provide true institutional investment services to our defined benefit plan clients. Through the use of sophisticated investment managers and the addition of esoteric asset classes we provide a true institutional investment solution for our defined benefit plan clients.
Defined Contribution Plans
By utilizing open architechure recordkeeping platforms for our defined contribution plans we can act as a prudent plan fiduciary. This allows us, as the investment advisor, to control the plan investment options available for particpants, instead of letting the recordkeeper control the invest options. This helps you understand the revenue sharing arrangements that are often fundamental to "packaged" retirement plan programs offered by insurance or mutual fund companies. Through this structure we are free to choose the recordkeeper and investment options that are in the best interest of the partipants.
Fees
Transparent fees that do not depend on any soft dollar arrangements are the basis for our services. This structure allows our clients to trust in our objectivity and guidance, and allows us to act in our fiduciary capicity for the plan.
Our independence, objectivity and transparency are grounded in our role as plan investment fiduciaries.