W. Fran Peters

Principal

Mr. Peters is in his seventh year at Meketa Investment Group and twelfth in the industry. He received an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a BS in Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business & Economics at the University of New Hampshire. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society. Mr. Peters also holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and is a member of the CAIA Association.

Mr. Peters serves as the lead consultant on various defined benefit, health & welfare, and insurance funds, with public, Taft-Hartley, corporate, and not-for-profit plan sponsors. His consulting work includes investment policy design, asset allocation modeling, public and private markets investment manager evaluation and fund performance analysis, among others. He is also a member of the firm's Real Estate Investment Committee.

Mr. Peters speaks at numerous industry events, including the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) Trustees and Administrators Institutes, the IFEBP Annual Employee Benefits Conference, the Public Funds Summit East and the New England Public Employees Retirement Systems Forum.

Prior to joining Meketa Investment Group, Mr. Peters was a client account manager at ING Financial Advisers, where he worked with Massachusetts public employees for four years. He is a member of the Massachusetts Association of Contributory Retirement Systems and the Michigan Association of Public Employees Retirement Systems.