What are your key responsibilities? As a Senior Investment Strategist, I am a senior portfolio manager who specializes in working with our relationship management team and clients. Frequently, I support our relationship managers in client discussions where we drill down into the complexities of Aperio portfolio management or analyze a client’s complicated portfolio situation.
Describe your key previous work experience. I was Head of the Quantitative Analytics & Risk Strategy group at RCM Capital Management (now part of Allianz Global Investors), which gave me a front-row seat to the ups and downs of active portfolio management, despite working alongside a very talented group of professionals. Perhaps this experience made me destined to pursue passive investment management—or at least drew me toward structural alpha. Addition roles included investment consulting at Milliman Investment Consulting, where I performed asset allocation studies and manager research; multi-factor back-testing and simulation research projects at Vestek Systems; management consulting at A.T. Kearney; and operations research (routing and scheduling optimization) at United Parcel Service.
What is the most interesting aspect of the job to you? Some of the most enjoyable (and challenging) aspects of my role are the frequent discussions with clients about their complex situations—and talking through how different management strategies may offer them attractive customized solutions.
Describe some noteworthy projects you have worked on that directly impact Aperio’s clients. I’ve participated in many interesting projects that directly impact our clients, including building a “white label” multi-factor strategy for one client and developing a tax management strategy for another whose legacy portfolio had the lowest cost-to-market-value ratio I have ever seen—4% (i.e., a 25-fold increase in market value since purchase!). Perhaps the most interesting project, however, was for a large client with two pooled vehicles where Aperio would be one of five managers in each pool. The client wanted to customize the sector and industry weights, and the factor and beta exposures, to control the overall risk of the entire pool (talk about the tail wagging the dog)! The client is extremely appreciative of our customization and the flexibility it affords them.
What do you like most about working at Aperio? Everybody is positive! I have never seen this before in my career. I also like the Lunch and Learns (depending on the lunch!).
What previous role(s) did you serve at Aperio? Although my role hasn’t officially changed, it has evolved as each year brings new opportunities to get involved. Whether it’s contributing to a big client project, or working on factor strategies and tax-loss harvesting marketing decks, or giving a Lunch and Learn, the interesting opportunities have continuously flowed.
List any committees or organizations you are a member of outside Aperio. I’m a member of the CFA Institute, the CFA Society San Francisco (and former member of the board of directors and Chair of Continuing Education Committee), and the CAIA Association.
What are some non-work-related things we should know about you? My typical day begins with my wife and I enjoying homemade cappuccinos before donning our bike gear and cycling our 30-minute loop through the Presidio national park and Crissy Field. (The hot coffee rarely wins the temperature battle against the cold and windy San Francisco seasons.) We also enjoy international and domestic travel to check out the world.
What postsecondary degrees and/or professional certifications do you possess? AB cum laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University; MBA, with honors, in Financial Management and International Business from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder.
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