Fred is the Co-founder,a Managing Member, a Consultant and , the Chief Compliance Officer and one of the Co-Founders of MPC Capital Advisors, LLC. In addition to his client service and management responsibilities, Fred oversees the investment team and is primarily responsible for the development and delivery of investment services and solutions to MPC’s clients.
Fred provides MPC’s clients with more than three decades of experience working with institutional plan sponsors. Throughout his career, he has specialized in working with tax-exempt, committee driven entities in the non-for-profit and retirement arena. In addition to his work with plan sponsors, Fred has overseen asset allocation and manager research, liability based analytics, the creation of performance measurement & attribution systems and the CIO of an development of an OCIO platform, as the CIO and co-founder of a joint venture known as Clearbrook Investment Solutions.
Fred began his career in investment consulting at Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. working in the Investment Consulting Division, and then continued at SEI Funds Evaluation, Inc. after they acquired Merrill's consulting division in 1985. Fred joined Prudential-Bache Securities in 1986 taking the role as Director of the Investment Consulting & Research Unit of the Client Advisory Service Group. Fred joined MPC, then known as Madison Portfolio Consulting Inc., in 1995 as an officer and consultant.
Fred has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Unitas Investment Fund, Inc. of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, NY as well as a member of the Diocese’s investment committee since 2001.
Fred has been active in the Investment Consulting industry, serving on the Board of Directors of the Investments & Wealth Institute (formerly known as IMCA) from 1995 to 2004. In working with W&MI Fred served as Vice President of Board (1997-1998), Chairman of its Performance Standards Implementation Committee (1991-1999), Chairman of the Certification Committee (1997–2003), board member of the Certification Commission (2009–2015; Chairman 2010-2012), co-chaired the Hedge Fund Task Force (2002-2005) and served on the Board of Directors of the IMCA NY Chapter (2011 to 2019). Fred was awarded The Pioneer Award by the Money Management Institute in April 2001 in recognition of his leadership in the investment service industry. He is a Certified Investment Management Analyst and a member of the International Foundation of Employee Benefits. Fred received his BS and MBA in Finance from St. John’s University, graduating with honors.
