Executive Team:
Wayne H. Miller - CEO
Doug Foster - SVP
Timothy L. Carlsen - SVP
Charles Southall FSA - Senior Consultant
Fiona Hope - Executive Coordinator

Advisory Board

Our experience and expertise in ERISA fiduciary governance was the defining factor in forging our relationships with Financial Executives International (FEI) and Jeffrey Mamorsky, Chair of the ERISA department at Greenberg Traurig LLP, developer of the Fiduciary Audit® and one of the original authors of ERISA.

DFM founders co-authored the Fiduciary Assistance and Compliance Systems© (FACS). The FACS Program is a unique fiduciary governance documentation system that establishes a definitive record of procedural prudence in plan management. It closes the communication loop between members of the Plan Administrative Committee (PAC) and the appointing fiduciaries on the Board of Directors. The end result of using FACS is the creation of a 120+ page document that illustrates the PAC’s fulfillment of all statutory fiduciary duties. This document effectively removes Board members from the threat of fiduciary liability and therefore serves as a deterrent to future litigation.

The solutions we deliver are built by fiduciaries for fiduciaries. Denali Fiduciary Management is committed to having best fiduciary practices embedded in all of its retirement plan solutions. As principals of Independent Retirement Plan Services, the founders of Denali Fiduciary Management have an impressive track record:

1993: Among the first consulting firms in the defined contribution marketplace that championed and installed independent investment menus in 401(k) Plans.

1994: Pioneered the use of tactical asset allocation investment options in a defined contribution environment.

1997: Pioneered the use of an event driven life-stages recordkeeping platform for employee benefit plans.

1998: Developed the Performance Landscape format of investment reporting. Also in 1998, we developed the first participant-oriented educational programs based on principles of behavioral finance.

2003: Authored the Fiduciary Assistance & Compliance Systems© program (FACS), a definitive text on fiduciary governance and the management of 401(k) Plans.

2004: Denali Fiduciary Management (DFM) founded:
FEI contracted with DFM to convert the FACS Program into a web based training course with continuing education credits.

2005: Launched ERISA Fiduciary Governance Training at www.fei.org/erisa

2005: Launched SummitPlan, the first 401(k) solution built by fiduciaries for fiduciaries that delivers every component of the 401(k) plan under a fiduciary standard of care.

• Financial Executives International (FEI)
• American Financial Association (publishers of CFO Magazine)
• Institutional Investor
• Profit Sharing Council of America
• Institute for International Research
• The Western Pension and Benefits Conference.

Denali Fiduciary Management principals are Accredited Investment Fiduciary Auditors (AIFA). They have received specialized fiduciary training at the Center for Fiduciary Studies of the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business, the only academic program of its kind in the nation.

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