The Founders
Neal M. Dietz
Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer
Since 1983, Neal Dietz has offered a distinctive blend of professional investment guidance and personal service. His more than 30 years of managing individual equity, mutual fund and derivative portfolios gives clients a direct line of communication to their own personal, professional wealth manager.
Neal’s extensive study of technical analysis, as well as his degree in Accounting from Boston University, has guided him in doing comprehensive work with Relative Strength Investing that is designed to mitigate risk and identify investment opportunity. Relative Strength attempts to identify and track those areas or sectors of the market that are stronger than others. This work is the foundation for the investment strategy provided exclusively to the clients of Dietz & Lynch Capital.
Finally, his own experience as the owner of a successful restaurant in New York (1976-1983) allows him to combine personal experience with the struggles of being an entrepreneur, thereby enabling him to advise individuals as well as small businesses and corporate clients.
In February 2010, Neal was recognized as a top financial advisor and named to the LPL Financial Chairman’s Club by LPL Financial, based on production in 2009. Neal has been interviewed extensively and is featured in the book “Trader’s Secrets” (Target Press. 1999).
Neal holds the National Futures Commodities Exam (Series 3), General Securities Sales Supervisor (Series 8), and Series 65 registrations with LPL Financial.
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Edward M. Lynch, Jr., AIFA®, RF™
Managing Director & Chief Retirement Officer
Ed Lynch has worked with ERISA-qualified plan sponsors and designated fiduciaries in most aspects of plan development and maintenance since the early 1980s.
In 2003, Ed became one of the first practitioners in the United States to complete the Accredited Investment Fiduciary Auditor, AIFA®, program of advanced studies at The Center for Fiduciary Studies (Joseph Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh).
In September 2008, Dietz & Lynch Capital, formerly 401(k) Advisors Group, became “[one of] the first Investment Advisors globally” to successfully complete the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence (CEFEX) independent certification process. The CEFEX certification “provides assurance to investors, both institutional and individual, that Dietz & Lynch Capital has demonstrated adherence to the industry’s best fiduciary practices…indicating [it’s] interests are aligned with those of investors.”[1]
In 2009, Ed was voted by his peers as one of the 40 “Most Influential Retirement Plan Advisors” in the United States in a national survey conducted by the 401(k) Wire, the 401(k) Exchange and The Boston Research Group. Based on over 100,000 votes from the industry, business metrics and input of an editorial board, the top 300 and top 40 were recognized for their business success, and their influence on retirement plans, their fellow advisors and retirement plan providers.
Ed’s focus in working with fiduciaries, such as pension, profit sharing and 401(k) plan sponsors and trustees of endowments and foundations, is
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Assessing compliance with accepted “standards of fiduciary care
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Reviewing documents, investment performance and due diligence files
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Developing prudent review and monitoring processes for plan or trust assets
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Assisting with preparing, implementing and monitoring investment policy
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Analyzing and developing asset allocation strategies
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Evaluating reasonableness of fee structures and overall plan performance
Ed is a member of a number of professional and employee benefits organizations, a columnist as well as a frequent speaker on ERISA-plan topics. He has served as an Expert Witness in ERISA-plan related litigation and is a Contributing Editor for Pension Governance, LLC. Ed is a graduate, summa cum laude, of Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.
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