Products May 1, 2020

GoalPath, Questis Partner on Financial Wellness

The companies are offering a support program to investors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic for free for nine months.

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GoalPath Solutions, a practice management and back-office support program for retirement advisers, has partnered with Questis, a financial wellness provider, to offer its support program through employers to investors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic for free for the first nine months.

GoalPath President Marko Ungashick says the solution has been redesigned to speed delivery to employers and their employees.

“Traditionally, it might take between six to nine months to fully implement GoalPath based on all of the different components of the program,” he says. “By eliminating barriers, like fee negotiation and complete investment integration, we can get the financial education and resources into the hands of the people who need it now.”

Questis CEO Steve Wilbourne adds: “It made a lot of sense for us to partner with GoalPath to bring this solution to those who most need it. Our financial wellness technology platform is the perfect delivery mechanism for the full suite of tools through GoalPath.”

In addition to financial wellness and in-person and virtual financial goals, GoalPath has the ability to integrate a multiple glide path target-date fund (TDF) solution that uses custom participant data to target a monthly income in retirement. It can serve as a retirement plan’s qualified default investment alternative (QDIA).

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Deals and People May 1, 2020

Retirement Industry People Moves

Callan names private equity SVP and IRI announces changes to executive committee and board of directors.

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Callan Adds Private Equity SVP

Callan has announced that Andrew Maday, CFA, CAIA, joined the firm as a senior vice president in the Private Equity Consulting group on April 1. He will focus on private equity research, including manager and fund sourcing and due diligence, strategic planning and portfolio modeling, and servicing clients. He is based in the Chicago office and reports to Pete Keliuotis, executive vice president and head of alternatives consulting.

“Andy has years of experience as an allocator within all areas of private markets, including servicing sophisticated investors as a senior member of an outsourced CIO [chief investment officer] platform,” Keliuotis says. “We’re excited to have him on our team and look forward to his contributions to our research and consulting efforts.” 

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Prior to joining Callan, Maday was a private markets analyst for Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF), responsible for the development and oversight of the private equity, real estate, infrastructure, timber and agriculture portfolios. Prior to IMRF, he was a senior associate investment program manager at Northern Trust Asset Management, managing and implementing investment portfolios in an outsourced CIO capacity for institutional and high-net-worth clients. He also worked with Northern Trust in operational and administration areas.

Maday earned a master’s degree from Saint Xavier University and a bachelor’s in finance from the University of Illinois–Chicago. He is a holder of the right to use the chartered financial analyst (CFA) designation and the chartered alternative investment analyst (CAIA) designation.

“I am excited to help Callan continue to broaden the firm’s alternative solutions and position client portfolios to meet their objectives,” Maday says. “I have had a longstanding relationship with Callan and have seen firsthand the strength of the culture and the commitment to providing the independent thought leadership and customized solutions based on client interests and needs.”

IRI Announces Changes to Executive Committee and Board of Directors

The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) has announced changes to its executive committee and board of directors.

Drew Bowden, senior vice president and general counsel, Jackson National Life Insurance Co., is now the chair of the IRI board of directors. John Kennedy, head of Retirement Solutions Distribution, Lincoln Financial Distributors is vice chair. Kennedy had been an at-large member of the IRI executive committee. New to the IRI executive committee is Terri Fiedler, president and chief executive officer, AIG Financial Distributors. Fiedler has been a member of IRI’s board of directors.

Joining the IRI board of directors are: Melissa Buccilli, director, head of Retirement Insurance, BlackRock; Robin Raju, managing director, head of Individual Retirement Business, Equitable; and Wes Severin, executive vice president, Retirement Division, Symetra Financial.

“We appreciate the commitment that each member of our board of directors and executive committee makes to IRI,” says Wayne Chopus, IRI president and CEO. “We welcome the new board members for their fresh perspectives and willingness to help lead our organization. The IRI board of directors is a true reflection of our membership, which represents the full supply chain of the retirement income industry and is the backbone of the value that IRI delivers.”

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