As director of Callan's Capital Markets Research Group, I oversee efforts to help our fund sponsor clients through strategic planning, conducting asset allocation and asset/liability studies, developing optimal investment manager structures, evaluating defined contribution plan investment lineups, and providing custom research on a variety of investment topics. I'm also a member of Callan's Management and Institute Advisory committees, a shareholder of the firm, and the author of the Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns, which I created it back in 1999. Prior to Callan, I was a senior economist and the western regional manager for Standard & Poor's DRI. My educational backgroun