Our Partners & Team Members


 

- Trust Companies
- Investment Managers
- Co-Fiduciary & Reporting Services
- Recordkeeping Providers
- Custodial Platforms


 

Trust Companies


 


Benefit Trust Company

Benefit Trust Company is a leading national provider of trust, custody, and fiduciary services for company retirement and benefit plans, banks, public entities, and registered investment advisors. Our firm is grounded in the single-minded focus of helping our clients to manage risk, while simultaneously improving profitability. Our expert team combines objectivity, independent insight, disciplined processes, and total fee transparency to help our clients mitigate their risks and manage the complexities of their fiduciary commitments. We receive tremendous satisfaction from knowing that our clients embrace these values as much as we do.


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Cardinal Trust Company

Cardinal Trust & Investments (“Cardinal”) is a division of Cardinal Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cardinal Financial Corporation based in McLean, VA. Cardinal has provided institutional custody, trust services, cash management and securities lending since 1991 and with assets over $2.667 billion our services have been customized and time tested many times over. As a state-chartered trust company we are equipped to manage assets, provide trust/agency accounting and protect assets under very strict standards. 


We operate on the highest of quality custodial systems currently in use in over 50 countries. With this experience behind us we are able to customize to your unique needs. Our systems automate the processes in the financial services marketplace, linking asset managers with brokers, brokers with exchanges, exchanges with banks and banks with settlement agents and custodians.


Cardinal Financial Corporation(“CFC”) is one of the largest bank holding companies in Northern Virginia and the Commonwealth.  CFC business units include Cardinal Bank, George Mason Mortgage and Wilson/Bennett Capital Management.  CFC is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol CFNL.  Market Capital as of December 31, 2008 is $148.3 million. Total assets of Cardinal Bank are $1.7 billion as of December 31, 2008. We strive to be your partner and through a consultative approach, solve your asset processing needs.

 

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Great Plains Trust Company

 

Great Plains Trust Company was chartered as an independent Kansas trust company in April 1994 by the Office of the State Bank Commissioner to transact a general trust company business in accordance with the laws of the State of Kansas. The company's initial business was principally comprised of providing investment management services to pension plans.

Since our inception, Great Plains Trust has expanded its overall services to include providing investment and asset management, trustee, and custody services to employee benefit plans, foundations, trusts, individuals and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Further, Great Plains Trust provides personal and institutional trust administration and custody services and investment management agency and custody services.

 

www.greatplainstrust.com

 

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Investment Managers


 

 

Black Knight

Our mission is to provide above-market investment returns, exceptional client service and multiple strategies to meet our clients' investment needs. In order to achieve these goals, we embrace the values of independent thinking, disciplined investing and devotion to client satisfaction. We stand by these values with the utmost integrity.


The name of the firm is a nod to the Black Knight athletic teams of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, of which Daryl Dennis is a graduate. The core beliefs embodied by West Point can be found at Black Knight. Discipline, honor, hard work, strategical thinking and performance (which is the equivalent of accomplishing the mission) remain central to the organization today.

 

Our vision is to provide our clients with above-market returns in lower volatility asset classes so that their participants can achieve their financial goals.

 

www.blackknightam.com

 

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C.S. McKee Investment Managers


C.S. McKee, L.P. is an independent registered investment advisor, specializing in institutional and retail investment management services, utilizing a variety of investment strategies and styles.  The firm, consisting of 38 employees, manages pension funds, profit-sharing plans, reserve funds, endowments and other financial assets for municipalities, unions, corporations, foundations, hospitals, schools, religious organizations and other institutions.  Founded in 1931, the Pittsburgh-based firm of professional managers has approximately $8.9 billion under management in over 400 equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios.

 

www.csmckee.com

 

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Meritage

 

Mission Statement: To deliver portfolio management excellence coupled with outstanding client service.

 

Guiding Principles

 

- Uphold the high moral standards and code of ethics of our member associations, the CFA Institute and the Investment Adviser Association.

- Stay true to our "value-centric" investment process discipline.

- Continually explore the use of technology to enhance the quality of investment decisions.

- Support a business model that encourages the direct relationship between client and investment professionals.

- Provide a professional work environment that encourages personal growth and intellectual freedom.

- Invest our own money in precisely the same way that we invest for our clients.


Meritage Corporate Presentation

 

www.meritageportfolio.com

 

 

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PRI Investments

PRI was founded over twenty-five years ago to provide investment products that seek to deliver attractive returns with relatively low risk. We believe PRI has developed some of the most innovative products in fixed-income investing, and we are proud of our tradition of client service and investment results.

* Long-term track record

* Extensive research and product development
* Investment Programs have outperformed benchmarks
* Unique expertise and long-term experience investing in U.S. Treasuries


PRI Investments Briefing Book

 

www.pri-investments.com

 

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Rogerscasey

The Rogercasey Retire Funds are designed to provide a single investment solution that automatically adjusts over time to meet the changing risk and return objectives of investors as they approach retirement. As the anticipated target date of retirement approaches, the investment strategy of the portfolio becomes more conservative. The Retire Funds offer:

 

- A transparent, institutional investment approach that relies on Rogerscasey’s 40 years of working with retirement investors


- Open Architecture / Best In Class Providers where all asset classes and sub-asset classes are included where appropriate, and managers selected based upon their ability to provide the best possible risk adjusted returns


- Independent, thoughtful asset allocation focused solely on meeting investor retirement goals and needs


www.rogerscasey.com


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Valmark (TOPS™ Strategic Allocation Portfolios)

ValMark Advisers, Inc., is a registered investment advisory firm and part of the ValMark family of companies which has over 40 years of focused experience in providing estate planning, wealth management and investment management services to retail and institutional investors. The Optimized Portfolio System (TOPS™) is designed to allow retirement plan participants to:

 

- Select an asset allocation strategy which has the level of risk acceptable to him/her
- Easily diversify investment assets among many asset classes
- Pursue a strategic asset allocation investment strategy for your investment time horizon


The TOPS™ Strategic Allocation Portfolios utilize ETFs to provide diversification and asset allocation. ETFs are passively managed baskets of securities that trade on a national exchange like individual securities and are managed to track the holdings of their benchmark indices.

 

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Fiduciary & Reporting Services


 

 

InterServ

InterServ is an independent Registered Investment Advisor that delivers investment management, co-fiduciary services and investment analysis reporting to retirement plan sponsors in partnership with their financial advisors.

 

InterServ brings value to the plan sponsor/advisor relationship by offering a unique investment process, prudent practices and quality investment analysis and recommendations. Other services include:

 

- Proprietary analysis of existing investment line-up, including InterScoresSM
- Customized Investment Policy Statement generation
- Asset allocation modeling recommendations
- Ongoing investment monitoring and reporting
- CEFEX-certified co-fiduciary service on applicable plans
- Periodic plan reviews with client’s Investment Committee

 

InterServ Overview
InterScore Defined
InterServ and Advisors Roles & Responsibilities


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Recordkeeping Providers


 

Columbia Benefits Consultants, Inc.

Opening its doors in 1979, Columbia Benefits Consultants has a long history in the retirement plan industury. Our consultants and advisors draw upon many years of experience in the qualified plan consulting arena.  We are your trusted partner for all retirement plan issues.  In this constantly shifting environment, plan sponsors and their employees/ participants are increasingly in need of custom-designed retirement plans to help them meet their specific goals and requirements.  Our firm is committed to developing solutions that are on target with your needs, and to implement them competently, responsibly and with confidence.  It is our policy to provide independent and sound consulting advice to address your company's retirement needs. 

For more information please visit www.columbiabenefits.com or call (877) 535-0560

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CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.

Since 1972 CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. has provided recordkeeping and administration services to qualified and non-qualified defined contribution retirement plans from its corporate offices in Great Bend, Kansas. With 13 regional offices located throughout the United States, CPI's consulting and production management staff has more than 270 combined years of experience in the retirement plan industry. CPI currently partners with the nation's most prominent investment institutions and mutual fund companies to provide services to more than 3,000 retirement plan clients and their financial advisers.

 

For more information about CPI services, visit www.cpiqpc.com or call 800-279-9916, extension 765.

 

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DailyAccess


DailyAccess Corporation is an innovative, industry-leading retirement plan services company. We provide solutions-based technologies integrated with professional, personalized client service to enable plan sponsors and financial advisors to deliver the most effective retirement plan available to the participants they serve. We offer our services through financial advisors and deliver recordkeeping and administration services and consulting for defined contribution plans to small to mid-sized plan sponsors.


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P&A Retirement Plan Services


P&A Retirement Plan Services, part of the Buffalo, NY based P&A Group, is a true open-architecture defined contribution recordkeeper and Third-Party Administrator, providing services to employer sponsored retirement plans in the small to mid-sized marketplace. P&A 401(k), P&A 403(b) and P&A 457 provide real alternatives to the hidden costs and expensive mutual fund options that plague many of the traditional retirement plan platforms.

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Custodial Platforms


 

 

- MidAtlantic Trust Company


- Reliance Trust Company

 

 

 

 

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