Who We Are

FiduciaryVest is owned by its founding principals, J. Gregg Buckalew, W. Philly. Jones and Harold Small. They have 40 years of collective experience providing investment advisory and fiduciary support services to institutional clients. There is no financial parent, or affiliated organization.

The 7-person professional team which formed FiduciaryVest in January 2005 had already been together for a number of years. Thus, the team's consulting philosophy, procedures and individual roles were already in place long before 2005.

The FiduciaryVest team currently serves 41 institutional clients in 17 states and Canada, representing $7.6 billion in assets.

Our Clients

Clients currently include retirement plans, hospital organizations, charitable foundations, endowments, insurance companies and other sponsors of institutional asset pools.

Our Philosophy

We believe that each client has unique investing needs and risk-taking context; accordingly,

We believe each client deserves to have an investment program that is appropriate for, and adequately serves all key aspects of its investing situation and goals for outcomes, and

We seek to create the overall result that clients will be unattractive defendants to any legal counsel who may consider fiduciary litigation against our clients.

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Our Mission

We help our clients' investment committees manage and control both their investment risk and results, via a combination of assessment, planning, strategy, documentation, implementation and ongoing oversight.

We help sponsors of retirement plans and employee savings plans to manage fiduciary risk, while optimizing pension cost, or savings benefits for employees.

We serve our clients without bias or conflicts of interest. (We have no financial arrangements with in any potential providers of services to our clients.)

We serve our clients as a co-fiduciary advisor and, via the design, documentation and ongoing management of their fiduciary oversight process, to be "unattractive defendants."

Consulting Services

Our role as a co-fiduciary advisor is to assist our clients with the design, documentation and ongoing execution of the fiduciary process. In this context, we provide the following services:

Assess the client's investing situation(s), via analysis of assets, liabilities and projected cash flows.

Provide investment education, as may be needed for the client-committee to adequately participate in the development of risk and return goals.

Determine the client's ability and tolerance for investment risk-taking.

Develop, or re-develop Investment Policy goals and guidelines, taking into account the risk parameters previously determined.

Design an investment program that aligns with the client's goals and objectives.

Perform searches for investment managers and/or funds.

Perform searches for corporate trustee, custodian, bundled provider.

Create client-specific asset allocation/forecasting models (outcomes for different variables based on their probabilities).

Perform fiduciary reviews.

Analyze and benchmark vendor fees and expense charges (primarily 401(k) plan clients).

Prepare and deliver periodic investment program reviews (performance evaluation and recommendations reports), including meeting with the client (typically quarterly).

Independence and Objectivity

FiduciaryVest is an independent, employee-owned investment advisory firm. As such, we provide objective consulting services and advice that is solely in the interests of our clients.

By design, we are free from the influences of any revenue sources other than direct compensation by our clients. We do not provide custodial, recordkeeping, brokerage or investment management services and have no affiliations with firms providing such services.