Susan Mangiero is a managing director with Fiduciary Leadership, LLC. She provides compliance, dispute and litigation support to asset managers, institutional investors and their counsel. Dr. Mangiero is a CFA charterholder, a certified Financial Risk Manager and an Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst®. She has provided testimony before the ERISA Advisory Council, the OECD and the International Organization of Pension Supervisors as well as offering expert testimony and behind-the-scenes forensic analysis, calculation of damages and rebuttal report commentary for various investment governance, investment performance, fiduciary breach, prudence, risk and valuation litigation and arbitration matters. She 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. This includes work on trading desks for several global banks, in the areas of fixed income, foreign exchange, interest rate and currency swaps, futures and options.
Experience
Dr. Mangiero has provided insights about asset allocation, fiduciary duties, risk management, modeling, hedge effectiveness, hedge funds, private equity funds, ERISA, valuation and industry best practices for consulting clients and employers that include the General Electric Company, Prudential Retirement, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mesirow Financial, Bankers Trust, Bank of America, Chilean pension regulator, World Bank, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, RiskMetrics, U.S. Department of Labor, Northern Trust Company and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Dr. Mangiero is the author of Risk Management for Pensions, Endowments and Foundations (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), a primer on risk and valuation issues, with an emphasis on fiduciary responsibility and best practices. She is a member of the 401(k) vendor RFP best practices committee for the Association of Financial Professionals.
Her articles or comments have appeared in Expert Alert (American Bar Association, Section of Litigation), Hedge Fund Review, Investment Lawyer, Valuation Strategies, RISK, Financial Services Review, Journal of Indexes, Family Foundation Advisor, Bankers Magazine, Expert Evidence Report and the Journal of Compensation and Benefits. Her article on CFO liability as relates to pension issues in bankruptcy, M&A and underfunding situations is due out shortly in the Journal of Corporate Treasury Management. Dr. Mangiero has written chapters for several books, including the Litigation Services Handbook and The Handbook of Interest Rate Risk Management. She is a frequently invited speaker and has keynoted or led workshops for organizations such as the Stable Value Investment Association, Harvard Law School, Florida Public Pension Trustees Association, New York State Department of Insurance, Association of Public Pension Auditors, AICPA - Employee Benefits Section, National Association of Corporate Directors and Financial Executives International. Dr. Mangiero has provided training about topics such as hedge funds and private equity investing, risk management, valuation, portfolio management, quantitative analysis, asset allocation, use of derivatives, risk tolerance, investment fiduciary standards and model risk to attorneys, auditors, board members, corporate treasury professionals, regulators and trustees.