Susan Mangiero, Ph.D. AVA, AIFA, CFA, FRM

Susan Mangiero's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Dr. Mangiero provides investment risk and valuation consulting for pension trustees, regulators, audit and compliance firms, hedge fund professionals, and attorneys. Dr. Mangiero is the founder of Pension Governance, LLC. She has served as a public arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Susan Mangiero has over twenty years of experience in capital markets, global treasury, asset-liability management, portfolio management, economic and investment analysis, derivatives, financial risk control and valuation and has worked for organizations such as the General Electric Company, PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, Bank of America and Bankers Trust. She has worked on four trading desks, in the areas of foreign exchange, fixed income and futures and options. Representative consulting clients include Mesirow Financial, World Bank, Michel-Shaked Group, pension trustee groups, regulators and major law firms.

Dr. Mangiero is regularly invited to speak about valuation, risk and governance with an emphasis on applications for pension funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, endowments and foundations. Audiences include the New York State Department of Insurance, Merrill Lynch, Association of Public Pension Fund Auditors, Association of Forensic Economics, New England Public Employee Retirement Systems Forum, Global Association of Risk Professionals, American Society of Appraisers, Connecticut State Department of Banking, North American Securities Administrators Association, Canadian Investment Review, Financial Planning Association, American Bar Association, Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning and the U.S. Department of Labor.

More About Susan Mangiero. . .
A Chartered Financial Analyst, Dr. Mangiero earned the designation of Accredited Valuation Analyst from the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts and is certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals as a Financial Risk Manager. In August 2006, she was awarded the Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst® designation from the Center for Fiduciary Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Connecticut, an MBA in Finance from New York University, an MA in Economics from George Washington University, and a BA in Economics from George Mason University.

Her book, Risk Management for Pensions, Endowment, and Foundations, looks at risk management and valuation issues, with an emphasis on fiduciary responsibility and best practices. Her articles have appeared in Hedge Fund Review, Investment Lawyer, Valuation Strategies, RISK Magazine, Financial Services Review, Family Foundation Advisor, Hedgeco.net, Expert Evidence Report, and Bankers Magazine. She has written chapters for several books including the Litigation Services Handbook and The Handbook of Interest Rate Risk Management.

• Globalization
• Macro- Global Capital Markets
• Financial Planning
• Pension Protection
• Regulations for Corporations
• Asset-Liability Management
• Economic and Investment Analysis
• Derivatives
• Financial Risk Control and Valuation Governance

“Your expertise was invaluable when discussing the technical aspects of valuation.”  

---Aileen Doherty, Esquire, Hedge Fund Compliance, Jefferson Wells International, Inc.

“I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation -- you are as good at giving presentations as you are at making difficult subjects comprehensible in the written medium!"

--- Maryann Motza, PhD, State Social Security Administrator,
Public Employees' Social Security Program
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment

"Your comments and analysis show an 'underneath the numbers' understanding of a business and what makes it tick."

--- Attorney Connie Loeser, Partner, Loeser Barnett