Jennifer A. Cooper, C.F.A.
"Straight Talk on Investment Consultants”

Jennifer Ann Cooper is the Principal and founder of Cooper Consultants. Established in 1996, Cooper Consultants is an independent firm that provides custom due diligence services to large tax exempt institutional investors. The firm dedicates 100% of its resources to consulting to institutional investors on investment consultant issues. The firm is considered to be the leading industry source of information on the investment consulting industry.

 Cooper Consultants advises educational endowments, foundations, hospitals, corporate pension funds and public pension funds. Clients of the firm have included MOSERS, EDS Corporation, Sisters of Mercy Foundation, the Producers-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan, Hebrew Union College Endowment, and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.

 Ms. Cooper has served in leadership positions in institutional investor organizations worldwide, including the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (currently) the Council of Institutional Investors (Finance Committee Chair in 1995), and the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council’s Capital Allocation Sub-Council (1992-1997) which made recommendations to the President and Congress on investment and savings issues. Ms. Cooper also has served as an “on the ground” technical advisor to both the US-AID and the Asian Development Bank, assisting efforts to promote market transparency in the former Soviet Union Republic of Kazakhstan.

 Ms. Cooper is a Chartered Financial Analyst.  Ms. Cooper financed her own education at the University of Houston.  She earned a B. A. in Philosophy with an emphasis on ethics and decision theory. Following graduation, Ms. Cooper began a ten year professional career at the Houston Firefighter’s Relief and Retirement Fund where she developed internal controls for the fund and was instrumental in the privatization of the fund’s operations from the City of Houston. Through internal promotions, Ms. Cooper eventually became Executive Director of the $1.6 billion fund in 1992.  She resigned her position in 1996 to establish her firm, Cooper Consultants.

 In her free time at home, she plays the violin. Ms. Cooper is an avid hiker and mountaineer. The peaks she has climbed include: Mt. Ranier, Mt. Blanc (French side), Mt. Auyantepui in Venezuela and the Gran Paradiso in the Italian Alps.

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