Mark Delfs, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Overland, Ks

Responsible for investment portfolio management of corporate and municipal defined benefit and defined contribution plans acquired from Huntington Bank in 2023.

594 Green Bay Road, Winnetka, Il 60093

Real estate Broker with Baird & Warner Winnetka, leveraging my 30+ years of experience in financial services and real estate investing to provide my clients with the insights and expertise to achieve their goals.

Greater Chicago Area

Provide investment consulting services including investment menu design, investment portfolio construction, and manager due diligence on over $400 million HNW and retirement plan assets overseen by RIAs in the Chicago area.

Chicago, Il

Responsible for helping oversee $3 billion of assets under management for 50,000 plan participants and an additional $1 billion of consulting business assets. Led all investment research and analysis, and chaired firm’s Investment Committee. Responsible for managing defined contribution plan participant assets, investment menu design, model portfolio construction, and analytical process of consulting business. Responsible for all strategic and tactical model portfolio construction (including risk models, portfolio optimization, asset allocation analysis, mutual fund due diligence), investment consulting and discretionary asset management firm-wide. Managed RPA’s discretionary fee-based managed retirement account platform for public sector employees - serving over 7,000 plan participants in 700 defined contribution plans. * Led strategic initiative formalizing, rebuilding and growing the firm’s discretionary fee-based managed retirement account platform for public sector employees from less than $40 million to over $400 million. Established guidelines for portfolio investment selection, construction process and monitoring. * Led strategic initiative that grew consulting business from $200 million to over $1 billion. Key decision-maker in firm’s consulting business as well as the chief architect of firm’s consulting report format technology and analytical process. Developed all due diligence reports and processes for investment selection and monitoring. * Provided key decision-making input on over 30% of RPA’s total $4 billion business as team leader. Trained and developed advisors to independently lead client engagements. Led client presentations and proposals at committee level.* Provided significant value-added portfolio risk management in discretionary fee-based program. Risk models were managed to minimize portfolio risk significantly below relative benchmarks in terms of drawdown, relative volatility and sensitivity to movements in financial markets.

Chicago, Il

Responsible for all strategic and tactical model portfolio construction (including risk models, portfolio optimization, asset allocation analysis), investment consulting and discretionary asset management for over 7,000 plan participants in 700 defined contribution plans. * Developed and implemented new portfolio construction and performance monitoring processes. * Developed investment consulting and due diligence presentations to plan sponsors. Developed investment policy statements firm-wide. * Dramatically improved portfolio management and risk management process resulted in 5-fold increase in discretionary assets and growth of total program assets to over $200 million.

Chicago, Il

Provided investment consulting and portfolio analysis for investment portfolios totaling in excess of $75 million. * Founded independent RIA to serve High Net Worth private clients. Provided customized portfolio construction, risk management and monitoring based on clients' investment objectives and risk tolerances.

Naperville, Il

Responsible for managing all business development, strategic planning and product development for the Private Client Group of largest convertible securities investment manager in U.S. Managed over 100 high net worth household relationships (the client-base of firm’s founder) and developed strategic/tactical asset allocation models for client base totaling in excess of $150 million. Supervised staff of 10 investment professionals. * Grew Private Client Group assets by 50% to nearly $150 million in less than one year during adverse market environment. * Expanded product line to include Managed Mutual Funds Program providing customized asset allocation and portfolio rebalancing. * Implemented marketing program that included development of new product literature and advertising campaign within Chicago market. * Negotiated strategic alliance with nationally known financial services firm having $100 million sales potential. * Acquired and developed $14 million HNW client using total asset allocation approach. * Improved quality and timeliness of client statements through development of new customized report generation process.

Chicago, Il

Responsible for all business development at this $400 million money management firm serving high net-worth individuals and corporations. * Grew money management firm’s asset base to over $400 million from less than $250 million. * Developed its first formal marketing program, a referral source database of professional advisors, performance composites and a company website as a marketing and communication tool for stakeholders. * Initiated and supervised the effort for firm-wide AIMR Level-1 compliance. * Developed website, marketing materials and additional performance composites.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance And Marketing

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biochemistry