Cynthia Short

Cynthia Short is associated with Asset Consulting Group (ACG), a St. Louis–based independent investment consulting firm. Her email address ([hidden]) follows ACG's standard corporate email format, and the phone number in the stub, (314) 862-4848, is ACG's main corporate line — both consistent with her being an employee of the firm. However, she is not listed among ACG's publicly profiled senior leadership (which includes figures such as the firm's CEO, CFO, senior managing directors, and managing directors), and no public bio, LinkedIn profile, headshot, or stated title for her at ACG could be located. Her specific role therefore cannot be verified from public sources.

ACG itself is an independent, employee-owned investment consulting firm whose lineage traces to 1975, when its founding principals established one of the first institutional investment consulting practices; the current firm has operated for decades from St. Louis. It provides comprehensive, conflict-free investment advice to institutional clients including corporate and public pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, healthcare organizations, family offices, and high-net-worth clients. Its services span investment policy development, asset allocation, portfolio implementation, investment-manager search and selection, performance monitoring and reporting, alternatives, and client education.

As of mid-2025, ACG served roughly 128 traditional consulting relationships and, together with related relationships, advised on approximately $195 billion in client assets; separately it held discretionary (OCIO) authority over 16 client relationships representing about $861.5 million. The firm was recognized as a Coalition Greenwich (Crisil) Best Investment Consultant, based on nationwide interviews with hundreds of large U.S. institutional investors.

• ACG's work is institutional investment *advisory*, not direct startup/venture investing — it helps large asset owners build and oversee diversified portfolios rather than writing checks into individual companies.
• Core disciplines: investment policy design, strategic and tactical asset allocation, third-party investment-manager due diligence and selection, portfolio monitoring/reporting, and alternative investments.
• Serves institutional and high-net-worth capital pools (pensions, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, healthcare systems, family offices).
• Positions itself as independent and "conflict-free" — it does not manage proprietary products, so its recommendations are advisory and objective.
• *No individually stated investment thesis attributable to Cynthia Short was found; the above reflects ACG's firm-level approach.*