Nick Erickson, Cfa, Caia Email & Phone Number

Carlsbad, California, United States

Carlsbad, Ca

Carlsbad, Ca

Develop and enhance institutional client relationships, with plan sponsors including Taft-Hartley, Public Retirement Plans, Corporate 401(K), Health & Welfare, in addition to Endowment & Foundation portfolios. Maintain a thorough understanding of client needs. Set investment policy, develop investment beliefs, monitor fund performance and strategy. Design and provide advice on multi-asset investment solutions, including asset rebalancing and cash implementation plans.Conduct in-person visits to existing clients on a regular and ad hoc basis. Create and enhance client educational presentations on a variety of current topics relevant to the investment marketplace. Author of client-specific market memorandums. Contributor to white papers.Participate in client prospecting process, including review of RFPs. Facilitate business development opportunities with the marketing group and other internal departments. Maintain an excellent understanding of the firm's capabilities, strengths and services available.

Carlsbad, Ca And Portland, Or

Work directly with several West Coast clients including various defined benefit and health & welfare funds, with Taft Hartley, non-profit, endowment, charitable and public plan sponsors. Collaborate with consultants in the creation of client investment policy statements, asset allocation recommendations, manager selection and in writing of client memoranda regarding market developments.Meet with and evaluate the capabilities of investment managers. Assess suitability of managers given individual client needs and circumstances. Ongoing manager monitoring for quantitative characteristics such as underperformance and qualitative reasons affecting manager stability.

San Diego, Ca

Primarily responsible for gathering data and conducting research and analysis for Brandes Institute projects. Develops ideas for the Institute to investigate.Research and evaluate concepts that may be used in client retention, sales and marketing pieces.Provide quantitative research and analysis into attribution and portfolio characteristics of equity and fixed income portfolio for use by distribution channels and portfolio managers.Conduct statistical and competitive research and analysis on mutual funds, commingled funds, collective investment trusts, separately managed accounts and mandates.https://www.brandes.com/Institute/

Member of the Institutional Portfolio Management department that manages institutional client relationships that are typically $5 million or greater. The majority of these relationships are represented by pension plans of large corporations, state retirement systems, charities and endowments. Individual responsibilities include allocating equity holdings based on an institutional trading model, compliance monitoring against individual clients’ investment policy statements, and general client servicing. Other duties include attending client meetings, dinners and social events as appropriate. Experience with separately managed accounts as well as commingled funds across all equity products offered by Brandes Investment Partners.

Primary responsibilities include leading a team of 4 to 7 portfolio accountants that concentrate on reconciliation of institutional accounts, account administration, and client service. Experience working with European, Canadian as well as U.S. based accounts.Much of tenure spent allocated up to 50% to the software project teams to act as a business liaison on various initiatives including: reconciliation software releases, data research and remediation, and a massive upgrade to our portfolio accounting software.

• Helped to develop weekly and monthly Investment Update reports, which aided Investment Officers during their sales calls, and were used internally as well as externally.