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Delivering for Clients with Kate Pizzi of Fiducient Advisors

Episode 23: Kate Pizzi, Partner and Senior Consultant of Fiducient Advisors

Kate Pizzi, Partner and Senior Consultant of Fiducient Advisors joins us at Dakota Live! to take us through her experience from actuary to portfolio manager to investment consultant and what she has learned over the years to help her deliver success for clients and colleagues. Kate services institutional clients by providing advice and counsel on all areas of fund oversight including investment policy development, asset allocation, manager research, portfolio structure, rebalancing, and performance monitoring.

Fiducient Advisors is a full-service asset advisory business founded in 1995. With over 200 professionals and $230 billion in assets under advisement (as of June 30, 2022), Fiducient is one of the premier consultancy businesses in the US with providing investment consulting services to retirement plans, endowments and foundations, private clients, and financial institutions.

Tune in to this informative and wide-ranging discussion with one of the leading investment consultants in the financial services industry.

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Kate Pizzi

Fiducient Advisors

Kate services institutional clients by providing advice and counsel on all areas of fund oversight including investment policy development, asset allocation, manager research, portfolio structure, rebalancing and performance monitoring. She has significant experience developing and overseeing liability-driven investment strategies, strategic asset allocation, spending policies and plan design considerations. Kate co-leads the firm’s Defined Benefit Business Councils for both corporate and municipal plans and is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. She joined Fiduciary Investment Advisors, LLC in 2018, which combined with Fiducient Advisors in 2020.

Prior to joining the firm, she was a Managing Director in Hooker & Holcombe’s investment advisory group and also served as a Senior Investment Strategist and fixed income portfolio manager for Prime Advisors, Inc. Kate received her BA from Boston University and is a CFA® charterholder. She is also a credentialed actuary experienced in pension valuations. Kate is a member of the CFA Institute, an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a board member of the CFA Society Hartford and volunteers for Junior Achievement. She enjoys bedtime chats with her daughters, taking advantage of the outdoors (skiing, kayaking, hiking, biking), and playing the piano.

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