Institutional Asset Management

Our dedicated team of professionals focuses on the complex needs of institutional investors.

Associated Bank Institutional Asset Management's expertise in portfolio management combined with responsive local service, makes us uniquely qualified to address the investment needs of institutional investors.

We will consult with you on reviewing your current investment policy or creating a new policy utilizing the guidelines that align with your current and future goals. We place an emphasis on risk management and offer educational programs to help you meet your fiduciary responsibilities.

Our team of investment professionals offers local expertise, highly tenured portfolio managers and a disciplined investment process that puts your organization’s specific objectives at the center of every strategy.

Associated Bank offers investment services for:

  • Corporate
  • Endowments and foundations
  • Public funds
  • Healthcare providers 
  • Insurance companies
  • Taft-Hartley plans

We welcome the opportunity to learn about your organization and how we may assist with your institutional portfolio.

Our consultative approach to working with your organization:

  1. Listen and Engage: Listen and understand unique risk characteristics and return requirements.
  2. Consult: Develop a customized investment policy statement to document a framework for governance and establish portfolio parameters.
  3. Establish Strategy: Determine strategic asset allocation ranges and security types to construct a portfolio tailored to your needs.
  4. Manage Portfolio: Pursue return objectives in a risk-controlled environment through a disciplined and repeatable investment process.
  5. Evaluate and Adjust: Review portfolio in a dynamic feedback process to ensure portfolio remains positioned to pursue your objectives.

Community Involvement

Our approach to client relationships goes beyond investment management and includes other areas in which we can help support your mission. We can assist with the following:

  • Volunteerism–We encourage our colleagues to look for ways to deepen their connections to help enrich and strengthen the communities where we live and serve. Each colleague is awarded eight hours of paid volunteer time each year.
  • Leadership–Our colleagues have a strong tradition of lending their financial expertise to charities by serving on finance committees and boards of directors.
  • Financial support–To create and sustain healthy communities our corporate giving structure is focused on creating affordable housing, providing community services to minority and low-to-moderate income customers and communities, promoting economic development of small businesses and revitalizing and stabilizing neighborhoods within our footprint.

Please call or email for more information.

John B Duffy, Senior Vice President
Institutional Client Advisor

608-259-3654
John.Duffy@AssociatedBank.com

Justin D Dahl, Vice President
Institutional Client Advisor

414-283-2387
Justin.Dahl@AssociatedBank.com

Frequently Asked Questions

Our long history in this space includes many relationships with charitable, religious, healthcare, educational, environmental, family and community endowments and foundations offering a variety of services including:

  • Consulting with boards of directors – Education on fiduciary matters including compliance with Prudent Man Rule, investment and spending policies, and accurate reporting of portfolio accounting and performance.
  • Processing of In-kind gifts of securities – Work directly with the donor and their financial services firm to ensure a smooth transfer of assets and accurate tax reporting.
  • Consulting with large donors – Communicate our expertise to gain confidence that donated assets are handled properly.
  • Outreach to the donor community – Partner with the development officers of our nonprofit/endowment clients, as well as local accounting and legal firms to educate donors on the benefits and techniques of planned giving.

We maintain a staff of over 200 colleagues who serve in relationship management, portfolio management, administrative, analyst and management roles who offer out clients:

  • Investment Management – We specialize in developing investment solutions for institutional clients. With our custom portfolio management approach, we take the time to understand your needs and objectives to determine the appropriate portfolio solution.
  • Securities Custody – We provide administrative services for your firm’s institutional portfolio custody needs. Critical aspects of this include, asset safekeeping, trade settlement, income collection, corporate action monitoring, automated sweep investment and comprehensive reporting.
  • Escrow Services – Mitigate risk in critical transactions with escrow services from our experienced team. Our versatile experts can manage escrows for the needs of public and commercial clients. We may hold and disburse escrow funds for mergers and acquisitions, asset purchase transactions and other transactions requiring a third-party financial agent.


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