About Brendan E Trudden
For as long as he can remember, Brendan wanted to be a Financial Advisor. His father was a Financial Advisor at a Morgan Stanley predecessor firm and Brendan developed a fascination for markets at an early age. Later, he came to understand that those markets were a means to a more important end – helping people achieve their fondest aspirations for themselves and their families.
After graduating from St. Mary’s College of California with a degree in Economics, Brendan joined his father’s practice in 2001 and set out to make his dreams a reality. He soon came to two realizations. First, his clients could benefit from full-time professional investment management conducted by carefully researched third party managers. Second, he saw the deleterious effect of taxes on even superior investment returns. That was when he decided to combine his two observations when working with clients. As a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) earned through the Investments and Wealth Institute and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Brendan collaborates with Morgan Stanley’s Consulting Group and his Trudden Group analyst colleague, Steve Birnbaum, to research investment managers for not only performance, but style adherence and organizational strength and stability. When constructing portfolios for his clients, he also takes a tax-conscious approach that seeks to maximize after-tax returns through a variety of strategies described in a white paper he authored entitled “Taxes Are the Enemy of Portfolio Returns. (Click here to access).
Over the years, Brendan has refined his strategy by seeking best practices of senior industry colleagues. He sits on the Board of Directors of The Association of Professional Investment Consultants (APIC), an organization committed to providing investment professionals with a forum for exchanging insights and ideas on investment management consulting. In addition, Brendan currently serves as APIC’s Annual Conference Chair.
A Garden City native, Brendan loves his hometown and is active in the community. A varsity crew rower in college, he has coached crew at several area high schools. He and his wife Allison (also from Garden City) continue to reside where they grew up and enjoy boating, skiing and raising their twin daughters.
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