Alliance Benefit Group Engages Mesirow Financial
Firm to Provide Strategic Asset Class Models to ABG Plan Participants
CHICAGO, August 23, 2010 — Mesirow Financial and Alliance Benefit Group, LLC ("ABG") announced today that Mesirow Financial has been engaged to provide strategic asset allocation models for participants in client plans offered by ABG. Mesirow Financial's Investment Strategies group will provide two-tier strategic asset class models, based upon the sophistication of the plan participants.
"Offering this service to our plan participants strengthens our relationships with clients and enhances their ability to make informed allocation decisions," said, John Blossom, president at ABG.
ABG is one of the largest retirement plan administrators in the country, providing administration services to over 7,000 plans representing more than $14 billion in assets and 440,000 participants. By selecting Mesirow Financial to provide education and guidance, ABG is further strengthening the offering it delivers to clients.
"Our team's ability to tailor models specific to a firm with the depth and complexity of ABG, demonstrates Mesirow Financial's combined investment and technical acumen that is unique in the industry," said Michael Annin, managing director in Mesirow Financial's Investment Strategies division.
Mesirow Financial's risk-based asset allocation models are designed to help clients manage risk and maximize return by diversifying across a comprehensive set of asset classes. Incorporating these models into an overall investment strategy can help provide investors with a solid framework for portfolio construction.
About Alliance Benefit Group, LLC
Alliance Benefit Group Financial Services is an employee benefits consulting and administration firm offering state of the art employee benefits services designed to meet client's specific needs. Using the latest technology, coupled with the highest level of service and integrity, the firm's experienced consulting and administration teams can design and administer a customized benefits solution. The firm offers a complete range of benefits services including: Retirement Plan Services, Employer & Participant Investment Consulting , Employee Education, Health and Welfare Consulting, Health Savings Accounts, Section 125 Plan Services, Payroll Services and Personal Portfolio Management. For more information about Alliance Benefit Group, visit its Web site at abgfs.com.
About Mesirow Financial
The Investment Strategies team at Mesirow Financial specializes in creating investment strategies designed to enhance risk and return objectives for the plan participants of its clients. The team recognizes the need for institutions to not only offer investments that individuals feel comfortable choosing and that financial representatives have faith in recommending to their clients, but to provide participants with the information and tools needed to make investment choices most appropriate to their goals. Additionally, the firm's Investment Strategies professionals also provide independent, third-party consulting services that provide robust asset allocation strategies and manager selection to insurance companies, defined contribution providers, broker/dealers, and mutual fund companies.
Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, it is an independent, employee-owned firm with more than 1,200 employees in locations across the country and in London with capital of $297 million, revenues of $526 million and more than $40 billion in assets under management (unaudited). With expertise in Investment Management, Global Markets, Insurance Services and Consulting, Mesirow Financial strives to meet the financial needs of institutions, public sector entities, corporations and individuals. For more information about Mesirow Financial, visit its Web site at mesirowfinancial.com.
For more information, contact: Julie Liedtke, Mesirow Financial, 312.595.7902.
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