Alton R Cogert

Alton R. Cogert, CFA,CPA,CAIA, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Asset Alliance (www.saai.com), an investment consulting firm that exclusively serves insurance companies. Founded in 1994, the firm focuses on improving the investment process of insurers, since solid investment results will flow from a successful process.

Mr. Cogert has served as a technical advisor to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Invested Assets Working Group. He is a former member of the Board of Directors and former chairman of the Investment Committee of the National Alliance of Life Companies. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Texas, is editor of Insurer Investment Strategies and writes From the Northwest Quadrant, an "early warning" financial blog available at www.saai.com.

Mr. Cogert has more than thirty years of financial institution experience. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Mr. Cogert holds a BS from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Marshall School of the University of Southern California.