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Ivan Gelfand

Fixed Income Advisor
ffic@firstfiduciary.com

Mr. Gelfand is an advisor to our fixed income accounts. He is known to many as the “father of institutional cash management” and has over 50 years of investment experience. In 1975, he founded Gelfand, Quinn & Associates, Inc., a cash management firm that he later sold to Prudential Bache, Inc. In 1990, Mr. Gelfand founded Gelfand Partners Asset Management, which merged with Maxus Investment Group in 1997. Maxus later merged with Fifth Third Bank.

Mr. Gelfand is a popular speaker, writer, lecturer and instructor. He is a frequent guest on national and local radio and television broadcasts and has authored investment articles for national and local publications as well as a book on personal finance. Mr. Gelfand has guest lectured on money management and investment subjects at the graduate and doctoral levels at Florida Atlantic University, Case Western Reserve University, Baldwin-Wallace College and, most recently, the University of Dublin, Ireland.

Mr. Gelfand is past President of the Cleveland Association for Business Economics. He is a graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio with a B.S. in Business. He is also a graduate of the Columbia University School of Banking and attended graduate school at Case Western Reserve University.

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