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Shining Light On The Practices of Pension Fund Consultants: Who Are They Really Serving?


by Gerald H. Silk View Biography
Stephen Tountas
Bernstein Litowitz {newline}Berger & Grossmann LLP View Firm Credentials
New York Office

September 18, 2009

Previously published by The Advocate for Institutional Investors, First Quarter 2004 on January 2004

Pension fund consultants typically advise pension fund systems on critical financial and investment matters and, therefore, often occupy a position that is fiduciary in nature. As Justice Benjamin Cardozo noted, the standard of a fiduciary requires "something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior." Whether pension fund consultants are living up to this high moral standard is a question being raised as a result of recent revelations of consultant transgressions and an ongoing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") review of consultant activities in the pension fund arena.


 

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