GALLAGHER FIDUCIARY ADVISORS, LLC


AJG and its wholly-owned subsidiary Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc., (“GBS”), established Gallagher in 2008 with the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Yanni Partners, Inc. (“Yanni”), a registered investment advisor established in 1976. Gallagher acquired the assets of Independent Fiduciary Services, Inc. (“IFS”) on June 1, 2011. IFS, also a registered investment advisor, had been established in 1986.
• AJG, the New York Stock Exchange-listed parent organization, is one of the world's largest insurance and risk management services firms, providing a full range of retail and wholesale property/casualty insurance and alternative risk transfer services globally, as well as employee benefit, consulting and actuarial services.


• GBS, the direct parent of Gallagher, is the employee benefits division of AJG, providing a broad range of employee benefit plan design and consulting services.

Gallagher provides investment advice, consulting and decision-making to institutional investors, which include public and private sector employee benefit plans (including multiemployer plans), charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, labor organizations, state or municipal government entities, hospitals, non-profit organizations, private trusts, and corporations or business entities.
Fiduciary Advisory/Consulting Practice
Our investment advisory/consulting practice serves defined contribution and defined benefit pension and other funds regulated under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), not-for-profit endowments and foundations and other institutional investors, where we accept fiduciary responsibility for ongoing advice on asset allocation, portfolio structure, risk management, third-party investment manager selection and monitoring, trading and brokerage and other issues. Our work for consulting clients regularly includes supervising portfolio transitions when managers are engaged or terminated. This practice also provides investment review services, where we perform project-based evaluations of the investment programs, policies and investment-related organizational structures of institutional investors compared to best practices. Gallagher recognizes that each client is different and our advice is customized accordingly. To that end, Gallagher professionals invest time helping clients define their investment objectives and needs and their tolerance for risk. We consider the nature of the client’s investment portfolio, client’s liabilities or spending requirements, funding objectives, cash flow needs and sensitivity to investment risks. After helping the client establish its investment policy, asset allocation, risk management strategy and portfolio structure, Gallagher performs investment due diligence on third-party investment managers and provides advice and recommendations to clients regarding manager selection. In some cases Gallagher assumes discretionary authority regarding investment decisions such as how and on what terms a client’s assets should be invested and managed by third-party investment managers unrelated to Gallagher. In doing so, we use our discretion to select, monitor and, if need be, terminate and replace the outside investment managers. In other cases, we assume responsibility for selecting a particular investment vehicle suitable for a particular strategy or asset class identified by the client and thereafter managing the client’s investment in the vehicle. To support this aspect of our work, we use quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including conducting almost 200 due diligence meetings with investment managers each year, personally interfacing with key personnel both on-site and in our offices to gain insight into their processes, philosophies, resources and organizations.
Fiduciary Decision-making Practice
Our fiduciary decision-making practice involves acting as a fiduciary decision-maker for ERISA- regulated benefit plans and other institutions when their regular fiduciaries have a conflict of interest or some other circumstance renders it appropriate – or legally necessary – for an independent, knowledgeable party to act in their stead with regard to a particular asset or transaction. Our fiduciary decision-making assignments, have included, for example, acting as an independent fiduciary evaluating, valuing, acquiring and disposing of common stock and other securities issued by the employer/sponsor of ERISA-regulated defined contribution and defined benefit pension and other plans. Other assignments have included voting proxies with respect to reorganizations or other changes at mutual funds and other commingled vehicles for the benefit plan and other fiduciary clients of the financial institution that sponsors or manages the fund or vehicle, or corporate mergers involving such institutions. On all of these assignments, we use our judgment as fiduciaries to make a decision about the transaction or asset at hand based on the client’s governing documents, the applicable legal standards and the specific facts about the transaction or asset and the client on whose behalf we are taking fiduciary responsibility. As of December 31, 2018, Gallagher managed, on a discretionary basis, $3,550,000,000 in assets among 49 clients for 53 pools of assets which includes assets for which we have discretion over a portion of an entire portfolio. In addition, Gallagher is also an investment advisor/consultant with respect to 137 clients for 186 pools of assets (as of December 31, 2018) totaling $50,250,000,000. please register to get more info

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Discretionary $5,250,000,000
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