Pension Fund Consulting & Transition Management
Kos Consultants provides independent fiduciary consulting to pension funds, mutual funds, and institutional investors. We help plan sponsors and investment committees reduce trading costs, manage fund restructurings, and meet their fiduciary oversight responsibilities.
Advocating For Plan Sponsors Since 1987
Best Practices Made Better
Kos Consultants strategizes with institutions and high net worth individuals on trends, issues and opportunities emerging within the alternative investments space. We also assist investors in improving the operating efficiency of their investment funds with a specific emphasis on transaction cost management issues.
Alternative Investments
For most investors, this is a quickly evolving portion of their investment portfolio. Kos Consultants works with its clients to capitalize upon the significant opportunities emerging within this increasingly important area.
Fiduciary Education
We provide national and regional seminars to senior level executives on investment and trading issues within a content-driven, marketing–free environment. Our Fiduciary’s Guide to Trading Costs focuses on one important facet of fund administration.
Transition Management
We assist fund fiduciaries in protecting their interests during fund restructurings and manager transitions. Who should you use? What are the traps and pitfalls? How should you measure your effectiveness? How do you optimize this negative alpha?
Why Our Clients Are Happy
We believe our effectiveness is based on three strengths:
3 Key Strengths:
35+ Years Experience
No corporate conflicts of interest
Unwavering allegiance to investors
Richard A. Kos, CFA
Founder & President
Mr. Kos has thirty years of experience in the institutional investment management business advising plan sponsors, insurance companies, high net worth individuals, investment managers and consultants on investment management and trading issues. He currently assists investors with their hedge fund placements, alternative investments, global investment strategies and portfolio restructurings. He pioneered many of the practices and structures utilized within the transition management and commission recapture fields, saving his clients an estimated billion dollars over this time period.
Prior to founding Kos Consultants, Mr. Kos spent eight years on Wall Street as a Vice President at Salomon Brothers, Managing Director at Bear Stearns and President of Chapdelaine Pension Services Group providing investment management and transaction cost management services. Before that, he was a member of the Managing Committee at Frank Russell Company where he spent nine years advising global pension clients on global funds and brokerage issues. He was part of Russell’s Global Funds design initiative and built Russell’s highly successful transition management and commission recapture businesses. He is a former member of the Securities Industry Association’s Institutional Brokerage Committee and has met with the SEC on policy issues.
Mr. Kos was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1989. He received his BS in Finance from the University of Connecticut and has held Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 63 and 65 registrations. His work and research have been cited in Pensions & Investments, Traders Magazine, the Japanese Ministry of Finance Journal and other industry publications including the Association for Investment Management Research.