When Dean Derby founded Standard Valuations almost 30 years ago he was in many ways inventing the Performance Measurement industry.  The procedures he established have become the standard for others to follow.

Standard Valuations continues to innovate with the implementation of unique consulting techniques such as Base Manager Discipline.  Pension Funds often need special advice on how money should be allocated, how many Investment Managers they should hire, what style the managers should follow and what managers should be hired.  It can be difficult for Trustees to get objective advice from the experts they already employ.  When Trustees meet with their Investment Managers it is often in the manner of a "beauty contest".  Each manager is in competition with the other and is trying to create the best impression of their particular money management style and products.

To defuse this type of competition within a fund, Standard Valuations developed Base Manager Discipline.  With this procedure the most trusted and respected Investment Managers meet on an individualized basis with the fund's Investment Committee and staff.  It is a system where the competitive, adversarial relationship is defused and Investment Managers can sit together and give truly expert advice in how to best manage the fund in its entirety, for the benefit of the participants, with the view on the long term.  With this procedure Standard Valuations is able to maintain objectivity and its clients are able to avoid multiple levels of Consultants which make a Pension Fund top-heavy and overburdened by fees.

It is this sort of service that allows Standard Valuations' clients to take full advantage of high quality money management expertise.  And it is with this sort of innovative thinking that Standard Valuations has continued to put its clients, trustees and participants, as the primary concern for all consulting.

Standard Valuations, Inc.
790 Cleveland Avenue South
St. Paul, MN  55116
(651) 690-5441

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