Cortex Applied Research

Cortex dedicates all of its intellectual resources to the issues of pension governance, strategic planning, and fiduciary education. Owing to our principals' roots in management consulting, we are familiar with the workings of large organizations and have a keen understanding and appreciation of the senior management issues and concerns that pension executives must deal with. In addition, Cortex is one of the few consulting firms in the pension and investment field with organizational process design capability, which can facilitate board and staff consensus on governance solutions.Cortex Applied Research Inc. was founded by John Por in 1991. Prior to that time, John was Practice Leader of William M. Mercer's Strategic and Organizational Practice in Toronto. Tom Iannucci joined the firm in the same year and together, they developed a model of effective pension governance which has become highly regarded in North America.