Biography
John W. Pfenenger II, CFA
BSBA University of Missouri, 1984
MSIA Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986
CFA Charterholder
Member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of St. Louis
John is the President of Prism Capital Management, LLC. He has over 20 years of experience in investment management, research, and consulting. John has managed money for a broad range of clients including individual investors, pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, collective investment trusts and mutual funds. He has worked with charitable foundations and Fortune 500 companies to develop appropriate investment strategy and asset allocation policy. In the pension area, John has done extensive work in the areas of immunization and liability-driven investing, helping clients incorporate known and anticipated future obligations into the asset allocation process.
John began his career in 1986 as a portfolio manager at Mellon Bond Associates (now part of Mellon Capital) in Pittsburgh, PA. He continued his investment management career at Mitchell Hutchins Institutional Investors in New York, NY, where he was Vice President of Quantitative Fixed Income, and later at the Asset Management Group of National City in Cleveland, OH, where he was Vice President, Fixed Income Portfolio Management. He started Prism Capital, a Registered Investment Advisor, in 2007.
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