Callan

since 1973
  • 51-200 employees
  • Financial Services

Callan

Callan was founded as an employee-owned investment consulting firm in 1973. Ever since, we have empowered institutional investors with creative, customized investment solutions backed by proprietary research, exclusive data, and ongoing education. Today, Callan advises on more than $3 trillion in total fund sponsor assets, which makes it among the largest independently owned investment consulting firms in the U.S.

Callan uses a client-focused consulting model to serve pension and defined contribution plan sponsors, endowments, foundations, independent investment advisers, investment managers, and other asset owners. Headquartered in San Francisco, Callan also has offices in Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Summit, NJ, and Portland, OR.

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Expertise

Institutional Investment Consulting, Asset Management, and Financial Research & Data

Real Estate Indicators, 2Q25
  • 9 days ago

Real Estate Indicators, 2Q25Callan's Real Assets Consulting group identifies seven indicators--based on spreads in real estate and fixed income markets--that, combined with an understanding of prevailing market dynamics, have helped signal when the institutional real estate market is overheated or cooled.
  • 9 days ago

Callan's Real Assets Consulting group identifies seven indicators--based on spreads in real estate and fixed income markets--that, combined with an understanding of prevailing market dynamics, have...

Research Café: ESG Interview Series
  • 15 days ago

Callan's Kyle Fekete, CFA, interviews Stephen Liberatore, CFA, head of ESG/Impact at Nuveen. They discuss the concept of impact investing in fixed income, frameworks to address the topic, and curre...

Research Café - Modeling Returns and Managing Market Cap Weights
  • 28 days ago

Callan's David Wong, CFA, and Sarie Diloné, discuss net asset value (NAV) loans, what institutional investors should understand about them, and how private equity investment managers use them.

Active vs. Passive Report, 2Q25
  • 1 month ago

This series of charts compares active managers alongside relevant benchmarks over the long term.

Active vs. Passive Report, 2Q25This series of charts compares active managers alongside relevant benchmarks over the long term.
  • 1 month ago

This series of charts compares active managers alongside relevant benchmarks over the long term.

Market Pulse, 2Q25
  • 1 month ago

A quarterly market reference guide covering trends in the U.S. economy, developments for institutional investors, and the latest data for U.S. and global ex-U.S. equities and fixed income, alternat...

Market Pulse, 2Q25A quarterly market reference guide covering trends in the U.S. economy, developments for institutional investors, and the latest data for U.S. and global ex-U.S. equities and fixed income, alternatives, and defined contribution plans.
  • 1 month ago

A quarterly market reference guide covering trends in the U.S. economy, developments for institutional investors, and the latest data for U.S. and global ex-U.S. equities and fixed income, alternat...

2Q25 Capital Markets Review
  • 1 month ago

The Capital Markets Review provides analysis and a broad overview of the economy and public and private market activity each quarter across a wide range of asset classes.