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Richard LorantDirector of Marketing & Client Relations

Boston Office

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OVERVIEW

Richard Lorant helps implement Berman DeValerio’s business development plan and works with the firm’s lawyers to deliver outstanding client service through its portfolio monitoring program.


A former journalist and public relations professional, Mr. Lorant joined Berman DeValerio in 2000. He has been a key player in increasing the firm’s representation of institutional investors and raising its public profile.


Mr. Lorant works directly with a number of clients, including the City of Austin Police Retirement System, the Austin Fire Fighters Relief and Retirement Fund, the Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado, the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System, the San Antonio Fire and Police Pension Fund, the Wyoming State Retirement System and the Wyoming State Treasurer’s Office.

 

Before joining Berman DeValerio, Mr. Lorant was an account manager for a Boston-area public relations firm. His clients included Fidelity Investments, Phoenix Investment Partners and Fleet Bank. Prior to that, he spent 15 years as a journalist in the United States and Spain, most of it with The Associated Press, where he worked as a reporter, a correspondent and a desk supervisor.

 

EDUCATION

  • Oberlin College (B.A. in Communications Studies, minor in European History, 1982)

 

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Assisted public fund clients in establishing settlement claim filing program after custodial switch left potential gaps in coverage.
  • Developed firm’s client communications program and is responsible for its content.
  • Managed transition to state-of-the-art portfolio monitoring system.
  • Handles media relations and has placed op-ed articles in Pensions & Investments, The Boston Globe and other publications.
  • Has overseen multiple redesigns of firm website and print materials.

 

HONORS/DISTINCTIONS

  • Associated Press Managing Editors award for article on police shooting in Oakland, California, 1994.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Council of Institutional Investors
  • National Association of State Treasurers (Corporate Affiliate Board, 2009, 2010, 2011)
  • National Association of State Retirement Administrators
  • National Council on Teacher Retirement
  • National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems
  • Legal Marketing Association