Strategic Insight Appoints Matthew A. Savage Senior Business Development Manager

June 1, 2010 - PRLog -- Strategic Insight and Asset International, Inc., announced that Matthew A. Savage, RPA, has been appointed Senior Business Development Manager, focused on the qualified plan marketplace. Strategic Insight is a leading provider of research, data and analytics to investment managers worldwide; its parent company, Asset International, is a global information provider and publisher to institutional investors and other financial enterprises.

Mr. Savage will focus particularly on the newly enhanced iteration of Pathfinder, the premiere DC plan benchmarking and search solution, pioneered by PLANSPONSOR, another Asset International affiliate. The Pathfinder database enables plan sponsors and their advisers to make informed decisions on investment management, service providers and total plan expenses.

“I am excited to join the Pathfinder team,” said Mr. Savage. “The intensifying scrutiny of DC plans and the challenging market have increased the importance of plan advisers as well as the complexity of their DC plan selection process. Today, qualified plan sponsors and their advisers need to be even more discerning as to the vendors they use and the prices they pay.”

Mr. Savage possesses more than 15 years of qualified plan experience and a decade of business development focus, working both with advisers and plan sponsors. He joins Strategic Insight, from Thomson Reuters, where he was a sales specialist. Previously, Mr. Savage worked as Sales Consultant at Diversified Investment Advisors, and prior to that as a retirement marketing consultant at John Hancock Funds.

Mr. Savage reports to Rita Leytush, Senior Managing Director at Strategic Insight. “Matt brings extensive expertise to help DC advisers. He joins Strategic Insight at a time of significant challenges to the DC plan marketplace,” Ms. Leytush said. "His knowledge of and experience in the retirement industry should prove valuable, leveraging Strategic Insight’s more-than-two decades of helping the mutual fund industry.”

Mr. Savage has a B.A. from Westfield State College and earned the Retirement Plans Associate designation from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and the Wharton School.

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Strategic Insight, an Asset International company, is a leading research firm for the mutual fund and wealth management industry, providing clients with in-depth studies, consultation, and electronic decision support systems.