aiCIO Announces Top 10 Institutional Investment Consultants

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- aiCIO completed its two-day countdown of the top 25 institutional investment consultants with what editor-in-chief Kip McDaniel described as some "significant surprises" in the top 10.

"Many readers told us they expected the top rankings to consist of consultants with the largest books of business, but that wasn't the purpose of this exercise," McDaniel said. "From the start our goal was to select investment consultants whose ideas and insights in recent years have had the most beneficial and far-ranging impact on how institutional investors manage assets." The top 10 are:

1. Ari Jacobs, Managing Principal, Retirement Solutions Leader, Aon Hewitt
2. Allan Martin, Partner, NEPC
3. Jon Exley, Partner, KPMG Investment Advisory
4. Jeff Schutes, Global Leader, Manager Research, Mercer Investment Consulting
5. John Coombs, Head of Consulting (Sydney) & Executive Director, JANA Investment Advisers
6. Steve Nesbitt, CEO, Cliffwater
7. Andy Green, Partner, Hymans Robertson
8. Simon Ruddick, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Albourne Partners
9. Garry Hawker, Partner, Mercer Investment Consulting
10. David Service, Director, Investment Consulting, Towers Watson

McDaniel noted that traffic to ai-cio.com increased significantly during the two-day countdown. "Consultants are a competitive group whose currency is intellectual capital, and they care about the perceived value of their ideas among people who make multi-billion dollar decisions," he said.

About aiCIO
An online and print provider of news, information and proprietary survey data, aiCIO focuses on the 5,000 largest pools of capital in the world, across pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, insurance funds and other leading institutional investors. aiCIO is edited by Kip McDaniel. Please visit www.ai-cio.com/.

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