Segal Advisors Announces New Asset/Liability Modeling Practice Leader

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- John DeMairo, COO of Segal Advisors, Inc. has announced that Daniel F. Westerheide, Vice President and Consultant, was named Asset/Liability Modeling (ALM) Practice Leader. Mr. Westerheide’s predecessor, Irwin Tepper, recently retired from active consulting, but remains available as an advisor to the firm. Dr. Tepper founded the business that became Segal’s ALM Practice, and Mr. Westerheide and Dr. Tepper worked together to develop ALM solutions for a broad range of clients.

Mr. Westerheide has nearly 20 years of experience in pension consulting. He specializes in asset-liability strategies for defined benefit pension plans and is expert in capital markets theory and the application of capital markets modeling. As a leading practitioner in ALM, he works with clients in implementing such cutting-edge risk management techniques as synthetic duration and dynamic asset allocation.

Mr. Westerheide graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Actuarial Mathematics.

For more information, please contact Mary L. Feldman at 212.251.5029, or [email protected].

Segal Advisors, Inc. (www.segaladvisors.com), the investment-consulting affiliate of The Segal Company, is registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940, and has offered independent investment consulting services since 1969. Segal Advisors is one of the largest investment consultants to retirement plan sponsors – with more than 230 clients with $81.3 billion in total assets under supervision.