Marquette Associates, Inc. (“MAI”) is an investment adviser registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. MAI’s primary service is to provide investment
consulting services to institutions, individuals, families, family offices, registered
investment advisors, trusts, and charitable organizations or other business entities. The
firm was founded and began providing investment advice in 1986 under the same name.
MAI is headquartered at 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60601 and has
additional offices located in Baltimore, Maryland, St. Louis, Missouri, and Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. MAI has one wholly-owned subsidiary adviser: Peirce Park Group, Inc.
(“PPG”) located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. MAI is 100% employee owned; the firm
is owned by 25 partners. There are no individuals that own 25% or more of the firm, but
Brian Wrubel is the majority shareholder.
Investment Consulting Services
MAI offers both non-discretionary and discretionary investment consulting services,
although MAI provides primarily non-discretionary consulting services. These services
include:
▪ Asset allocation modeling / asset-liability studies
▪ Manager search, selection, and oversight
▪ Performance reporting and attribution analysis
▪ Firm-conducted research and educational training for clients
▪ Investment policy development and oversight
▪ Fee negotiation and cost advisement
▪ Custom benchmark development and peer comparison
▪ Review and selection of custodial bank
MAI provides customized services to its clients and no two investment programs are
alike. Our consultants take into consideration factors such as the client’s risk tolerance,
forecasted liability, and return expectations when making recommendations. Clients are
allowed to designate reasonable restrictions on their accounts.
In addition, MAI will provide fiduciary services which allows MAI to have the
discretionary authority to rebalance accounts and hire and fire third party managers.
Lastly, MAI may also work on special projects for prospective clients wherein MAI is
retained to provide certain, discrete consulting services.
MAI does not participate in wrap fee programs or accept soft dollar payments for its
services.
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QPAM Services/Consulting
In addition to MAI’s investment consulting business, MAI serves as a consultant to
various pension plans and as a Qualified Professional
Asset Manager (“QPAM”) under
the Employee Retirement Income Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) with regard to
various matters in which the services of a QPAM are required. This service may be
outsourced to a third-party. Such services include:
▪ Reviewing and advising on the client’s proposed real estate transactions
▪ Evaluating and advising on conflicts of interest in real estate related transactions
▪ Providing oversight of the development of real estate construction projects
▪ Conducting due diligence for potential real estate investments
▪ Providing analysis of various strategic decisions associated with leases
investments, development, dispositions and evaluation of investment decisions
▪ Evaluating real estate investments which have been completed to determine
whether they meet various industry and fiduciary standards
▪ Overseeing the operations of two real estate properties
Investment Supervisory Services
MAI provides investment supervisory services in the direct management of client
portfolios to institutions, individuals, families, family offices, registered investment
advisors, trusts, and charitable organizations or other business entities on a discretionary
basis.
Prior to engaging MAI to provide any of the foregoing investment advisory services, the
client will be required to enter into one or more written agreements with MAI setting
forth the terms and conditions under which MAI shall render its services. Likewise, MAI
will use certain investment tools to determine the clients’ risk parameters, time horizon
and investment objectives. These include in person meetings, a risk profile, client
questionnaire and other documentation.
MAI’s clients are advised to properly notify MAI if there are ever any changes in their
financial situation or investment objectives or if they wish to impose any reasonable
restrictions upon MAI’s management services. In general, MAI does permit restrictions
upon the type of security or particular security that the client requests.
Assets Under Management and Assets under Advisement
As of December 31, 2023, MAI had $14,732,918,575 in client assets under management
on a discretionary basis and $8,220,500,066 in client assets under management on a
non-discretionary basis and as of the same date, Marquette provided traditional
investment consulting services to $342,805,786,119 in client assets under advisement.
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