Kweku Obed

Mr. Kweku Obed is a Managing Director at Marquette Associates, Inc. An owner of the firm, he has been with the company since 2014 and has over 23 years of investment experience.
Mr. Obed serves as the primary consultant on several client relationships.
He chairs the firm’s defined contribution services committee and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
Mr. Obed joined the firm from Mercer Investment Consulting, where he served as a principal and senior investment consultant in their Chicago office.
His responsibilities included working with defined benefit and defined contribution clients on asset allocation, performance measurement and analysis, investment manager search, and investment policy development.
Prior to Mercer, he worked at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (now part of BlackRock) as an assistant vice president in their tax-exempt fixed income research group.
He holds a B.S.
with honors in economics from Queen Mary College, University of London, and a M.S.
in development economics from SOAS, University of London.
He is a recipient of the Bernard Corry Prize in Economics.
He is a CFA charterholder and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation.