2-26-130-P Attachment A - Proposer Questionnaire.pdf
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This is a Proposer Questionnaire document for investment consultant services being solicited by the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) in Texas. The questionnaire requires proposers to provide comprehensive responses across 26 items addressing firm qualifications, investment philosophy, and service delivery capabilities. Key areas of evaluation include the firm's organizational culture and unique value proposition, fiduciary status and regulatory compliance, quality assurance programs, and onboarding and transition plans. Additionally, proposers must demonstrate expertise in investment strategy development, asset allocation modeling, portfolio risk management, and investment manager selection and monitoring. The questionnaire also requests information on the firm's approach to governance document development, benchmark selection, rebalancing recommendations, and tactical portfolio strategies, along with composite client returns for comparable services over 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year periods.
The questionnaire does not specify pricing terms, set-asides, or contract duration within this document, as it functions as an evaluation tool rather than a formal request for proposal with contractual terms. Proposers are expected to address anticipated transition challenges and articulate how success will be measured in the client relationship. The firm must also identify any inherent scope of work challenges related to managing retirement plan assets and other post-employment benefits trust investments. This questionnaire serves to assess proposer qualifications, experience, and alignment with the District's investment management and governance objectives prior to formal contract award.
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Attachment A
Proposer Questionnaire
Proposers are requested to submit a complete response to each of the items listed below:
1. Provide an overview of the culture of your firm. How do your clients benefit from your firm’s culture? What is it that makes your firm’s culture a unique fit for the District?
2. State whether your firm, its parent or affiliate is a registered investment advisor with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
3. Does your firm agree to be a fiduciary for the Plan and the OPEB Trust?
4. Does your firm have written policies governing employee code of conduct, ethics and/or conflict of interest? Please provide an overview of each applicable policy.
5. Describe your firm’s quality assurance program, what are your company’s requirements and how are they measured? What controls are utilized to ensure that products and services are of the highest quality?
6. Provide an on-boarding plan with a proposed timeline to transition to your firm’s services. What difficulties do you anticipate and how do you plan to manage the transition?
7. How should the District, as your client, measure our joint success?
8. Describe your firm’s disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
9. How would your firm assist the District with the development or revision of our governance documents, including our investment policy statement and strategic asset allocation?
10. What strategies has your firm recommended to help clients mitigate volatility in their investment portfolios?
11. Describe your firm’s asset allocation process.
12. Outline your firm’s asset modeling capabilities and experience.
13. What changes has your firm made to your asset allocation process over the last five years?
14. Describe your firm’s investment philosophy and process.
15. Describe how your firm selects, uses and/or develops benchmarks and how those benchmarks would be used to assess progress toward the District’s goals.
16. How does your firm intend to add value to the District’s investment portfolio?
17. How frequently does your firm recommend rebalancing portfolio asset allocations?
18. Describe your firm’s research capabilities. Include information regarding how you evaluate, rank, and monitor investment managers.
19. Describe how your firm approaches portfolio construction, including how your firm researches, monitors, and recommends allocations to alternative investments.
20. Outline the tools your firm uses to manage and monitor risk.
21. Provide the reasons your firm would recommend terminating an investment manager.
22. Describe any forward-looking portfolio recommendations your firm has implemented in the past 5 years.
23. How does your firm implement tactical portfolio strategies?
24. Does your firm recommend including tactical portfolio managers?
25. Provide composite client returns for investment advisory services similar to the scope being requested for 1/3/5/10 years as of the most recent quarter end.
26. Identify any inherent Scope of Work challenges and the overall plan for meeting the requirements.
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