Speakers
For speaking opportunities, please contact: Contact: Evan Cooper Phone: (212) 210-0443 Email: [email protected]…
For speaking opportunities, please contact:
Contact: Evan Cooper
Phone: (212) 210-0443
Email: [email protected]
Principal, Ball Financial Services Co.
As a Chartered Financial Consultant Professional, James Ball is President and founder of Ball Financial Services Co., a family wealth management firm established in 1984 and based in Westborough, MA.
As a Registered Representative and Investment Adviser Representative affiliated with Commonwealth Financial Network for 25 years, Jim counsels clients in areas of investment, insurance, business, tax and estate planning.
He holds FINRA Series 6, 7, 22 & 63 registrations and is also a Licensed Insurance Agent.
With a staff of six including three co-advisers, Jim has established a unique and innovative team approach to establishing and maintaining client relationships, currently working with over 250 families in 15 states.
Senior Reporter, InvestmentNews
Jeff Benjamin, senior editor for InvestmentNews, covers a full range of investing strategies in the context of the overall financial advice industry. He also writes the weekly Investment Insights column, featuring various investment opportunities. Mr. Benjamin joined InvestmentNews in March 2000 from Cerulli Associates in Boston, where he worked as a consultant specializing in the managed accounts and hedge funds industries. Prior to that he covered the money management industry as a reporter for Dow Jones News Service in New York.
Mr. Benjamin began his career in Maryland where he worked as a business reporter for a number of news organizations, including The Baltimore Daily Record. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University. During his career, Mr. Benjamin has received more than two dozen national and regional awards for news reporting.
Chief Research Officer, AlphaMetrix Alternative Asset Advisors
Dr. Ranjan Bhaduri is Chief Research Officer and the Head of Product Development at AlphaMetrix Alternative Investment Advisors. Dr. Bhaduri has been part of the Executive Committee at AlphaMetrix since joining the firm at the beginning of 2008.
Prior to joining AlphaMetrix, he was a Vice President and on an Investment Committee at Morgan Stanley where he conducted due diligence and helped design customized portfolios of Alternatives. Earlier, he was at a Canadian Fund of Funds, and at a multi-billion dollar capital management firm where he was involved in all aspects of its fund of hedge funds and structured finance business. He has also worked with two major Canadian investment banks in the Financial Strategy Consulting Group and in Global Risk Management & Control, respectively.
Dr. Bhaduri has held advisory roles at the East-West Center, a leading think tank on the Asia-Pacific region, and at ClassMouse, an early stage software company. He has taught finance and mathematics at several universities and lectured on Derivatives for the Montreal Exchange. Dr. Bhaduri has published papers on, and been invited to speak worldwide regarding hedge fund issues, and advanced portfolio and risk management techniques.
Alternative Investment Portfolio Strategist, Former Global Head of Investment Research and Fund Research, Lipper
Gabriel Burstein has been until recently the global head of mutual and hedge fund investment research at Lipper. He is a multi-asset and fund investment strategist specializing in alternative and traditional portfolio solutions and mutual and hedge fund investment strategy. His background is global macro head investment strategist and alternative investment strategist at HSBC Bank USA and Daiwa Securities, trained in asset allocation, portfolio investment strategy global macro and alternative strategies at Goldman Sachs, PhD in the mathematics of finance.
Dr. Burstein is author of alternative strategy books in US and Japan, visiting professor in alternative investments at Cass Business School London, featured in Financial Times, InvestmentNews, CNN, CNBC, Fox etc.
Managing Partner, Chapwood Capital Investment Management
Ed Butowsky is an internationally recognized expert in the investment wealth management industry. Ed has a unique ability to combine the current political environment with how it affects investment portfolios. Butowsky has been in the financial services industry for over 22 years. Ed started his career with Morgan Stanley and was a Senior Vice President in private wealth management. In his 18 years at Morgan Stanley, he was the firm’s top producer nationally as well as the first advisor to surpass one billion dollars in assets under management. He was also recognized as a member of both the Chairman’s Club and the Equity Club, a distinction reserved for only the top advisors at the Morgan Stanley.
Through his work with professional athletes, Butowsky was recently featured in the Sports Illustrated article, “How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke.” This article to date is the most popular article in Sports Illustrated history. He is also a frequent guest on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Business News, FOX News Channel, and Bloomberg TV. Butowsky is often seen on “Varney and Co.”, “Willis Report”, “America’s News HQ” as well as “Taking Stock” with Pimm Fox. Ed is also regularly heard on radio shows around the country such as “Mad Dog Radio” and “Bloomberg Radio” discussing wealth management, economics and other subjects that are of interest and timely related to the finance/investments world. Most recently, Ed is featured as one of seven financial coaches/experts in the first of its kind online reality series, “The Invested Life”, a nine month series featuring real people facing today’s most common money concerns and their journey to taking control of their finances. (www.theinvestedlife.msn.com)
President/CEO, Coghill Investment Strategies, LLC
As a registered representative and Investment Adviser Representative of Commonwealth Financial Network® (member FINRA/SIPC, A Registered Investment Adviser), licensed insurance agent, Carrie Coghill counsels clients in the areas of investment management, retirement planning, and estate planning. With her AIF® designation, Ms. Coghill also assists businesses with implementing proper fiduciary practices, policies, and procedures.
Ms. Coghill is among the nation’s leading advisors. For more than a quarter century, she has been recognized for her outstanding achievements and positive impact on the financial industry both nationally and in the western Pennsylvania region. Ms. Coghill conducts workshops on a recurring basis and participates in forums to educate the public, as well as other financial advisors, about investments and financial planning. She is known for always taking the “consumer advocate” approach.
Ms. Coghill began her career with Shearson Lehman Brothers and Butcher & Singer, Inc. In 1987, she joined Bill Few Associates, where she and David Root, Jr. developed an innovative team concept for establishing and maintaining client relationships. She also co-founded D.B. Root & Company, a family wealth management firm established in 1994 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CEO, FactRight LLC
As President and CEO, Tony is responsible for FactRight’s long-term goals and strategies, strategic partnerships, day-to-day operations and bottom-line performance. His management expertise spans the full range of operational functions – corporate accounting, finance, audit, customer service, administration and sales and marketing combine with his many years of experience in the financial services industry. Tony is a well-rounded business leader equipped and driven to handle any situation.
Prior, Tony was the Director of National Sales for a sponsor of Tenant in Common securitized real estate transactions and was responsible for over $225 million in equity raised. His 20 years working for Fortune 100 companies, including 18 years of corporate finance, tax and audit with Verizon Communications, have provided him with unique leadership expertise and a global business perspective.
Tony serves as Vice President of REISA (Real Estate Investment Securities Association) and sits on REISA’s Board of Directors, co-chairs REISA’s membership committee, is the track leader for non-traded REITs and IPA’s (Investment Program Association) co-chair of the Private Placement committee and is a member of IPA’s Due Diligence committee. Tony is a graduate of De Paul University School of Commerce, attended Business School at the University of Dallas and has been recognized as a distinguished instructor for the Institute of Internal Auditors for more than 13 years.
Director of Custom Content and Programming, InvestmentNews
InvestmentNews Director of Custom Content and Programming Evan Cooper is an experienced financial editor and writer with extensive knowledge of mutual funds, the retail advisory business, wealth management and personal finance.
Now directing custom content creation for InvestmentNews and InvestmentNews.com, he is also responsible for programming the annual InvestmentNews Retirement Income Summit and the InvestmentNews Alternatives Conference. For five years, he served as Deputy Editor, during which time his column on InvestmentNews.com, OpINion Online, won a 2010 “Best in Business” Award for editorial excellence from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
He has been a guest speaker at meetings of the Investment Company Institute, the Financial Planning Association, the North American Securities Administrators’ Association, the College Savings Foundation, the Investment Program Association, the Financial Services Institute and several broker-dealers and investment management firms.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Cooper served as Director of Wealth Management News at Thomson Financial, as Assistant Managing Editor of Research at Institutional Investor, where he was responsible for All-America Research Team coverage, and as Editor-in-Chief of On Wall Street and Bank Investment Consultant magazines. He also has held senior corporate communications positions at the Securities Industry Association, the New York Stock Exchange and Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Editor, InvestmentNews
Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. is editor at InvestmentNews. He is an award-winning journalist who has served as both a reporter and editor for a number of financial publications over the past two decades, including InvestmentNews, Crain’s New York Business, Worth, the New York Law Journal and others. Mr. Gabriel has been recognized with numerous awards for his writing and reporting, including several by The Society of American Business Editors and Writers for his editorials and analyses of the financial services industry. He is also a past recipient of the CIT-Rutgers Business Journalism Award.
Mr. Gabriel is responsible for writing many of the editorials that appear in InvestmentNews and is author of The C-Suite, a popular column that profiles senior-level executives and their approach to leadership and management. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering with a concentration in Business Administration.
Director of Managed Products & Insurance, J.P. Turner & Co., LLC
Clint Gharib is the Director of Managed Products & Insurance for J.P. Turner & Company. As a Certified Financial Educator with 20+ years of industry experience he advises both clients and financial representatives. He has been quoted in numerous media outlets including Dow Jones and WSJ.com as well as appeared on an ABC news affiliate.
President, Carey Financial, LLC
Mr. Goldberg is a Managing Director of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC and has served as President of Carey Financial, LLC, the Company’s broker-dealer subsidiary, since April 2008. Mr. Goldberg previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Royal Alliance Associates, Inc., an independent broker-dealer, part of one of the nation’s largest networks of independent advisors. Prior to his CEO position at Royal Alliance, Mr. Goldberg served as Executive Vice President of SunAmerica Financial Network, a subsidiary of SunAmerica, and the parent company for six national broker-dealers. Mr. Goldberg also served as President of a Tokyo-based securities firm, which was an affiliate of the SunAmerica Financial Network. Mr. Goldberg currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Investment Program Association. He formerly a served on the Board of the Jerusalem Institute of Technology and was a founding member and former Director of the Financial Services Institute. Mr. Goldberg is a Licensed Securities Principal (Series 24). Mr. Goldberg has a bachelors of economics from Yeshiva University and attended graduate studies in finance at Baruch College.
Founder and CEO, Alternative Strategy Partners
Brian J. Haskin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Strategy Partners, an investment research and consulting firm focused on liquid alternatives. Throughout his 19-year career in the asset management industry, Brian has been directly responsible for the creation, management and distribution of both alternative and traditional investment products in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia for some of the largest and most innovative asset management firms in the industry, including Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), Deutsche Bank, Wilshire Associates and Analytic Investors.
Immediately prior to the formation of Alternative Strategy Partners, Brian served as the Head of Investment Strategy at Analytic Investors where he was responsible for product management and development of the firm’s alternative and traditional investment strategies. This included the creation and launch of multiple hedge fund products including equity market neutral, long/short equity, volatility arbitrage, global macro and multi-strategy. At Analytic, Brian also had the opportunity to oversee the development and distribution of innovative investment strategies such as 130/30 equity, low volatility equity and option overwriting.
Brian received his B.S. in business administration, with an emphasis in accounting, from the University of Southern California and his M.B.A. in finance, with honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Senior Columnist, InvestmentNews.
Bruce Kelly is the News Editor and brokerage reporter for InvestmentNews, where he has worked since 2000. He is also co-author of “Financial Serial Killers,” a 2010 analysis of financial fraud. A graduate of Rutgers College and Columbia’s University’s Graduate School of Journalism and former school teacher, Bruce is the proud father of five-and-a-half year old twins, Orlando and Vivienne.
Principal and Founder, SL Advisors, LLC
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Following 23 years with JPMorgan, Simon Lack founded SL Advisors, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor, in 2009. Much of Simon Lack’s career with JPMorgan was spent in North American Fixed Income Derivatives and Forward FX trading, a business that he ran successfully through several bank mergers ultimately overseeing 50 professionals and $300 million in annual revenues. Simon Lack sat on JPMorgan’s investment committee allocating over $1 billion to hedge fund managers and founded the JPMorgan Incubator Funds, two private equity vehicles that took economic stakes in emerging hedge fund managers. Simon chairs the Investment Committee for Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, NJ, and also chairs the Memorial Endowment Trust Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield, NJ. He is the author of The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good to Be True, which received widespread praise from mainstream financial press including The Economist, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Simon makes regular appearances on cable TV business shows discussing hedge funds and investing, and is a CFA Charterholder.
Senior VP, Investment Strategist
Natixis Global Asset Management – U.S. Distribution
Mr. Lafferty is Senior Vice President, Investment Strategies Group. His team is responsible
for assessing capital market trends, working with aff liated portfolio i management teams,
and developing innovative product solutions. He has been with the company since 2004.
Previously, Mr. Lafferty was senior vice president responsible for fixed-income and asset
allocation products with State Street Research, developing investment strategies for
institutional clients with assets ranging from $10 million to $2 billion. From 1998 to 2001,
he was a senior investment strategist at MetLife, structuring asset allocation programs
for institutional clients with assets totaling $600 million. Mr. Lafferty has 20 years of
investment industry experience.
Mr. Lafferty received his BA from the University of New Hampshire and his MSF (Master
of Science in Finance) from Suffolk University. He is a member of the Boston Security
Analyst Society and the CFA Institute.
Co-chairman and Co-founder, PM, Aston, Lake Partners, LASSO Alternatives Fund
Rick Lake is co-chairman and co-founder of Lake Partners, Inc. of Greenwich, CT, a consulting firm specializing in alternative investments with approximately $3.9 billion of consulting and advisory assets. He is an industry veteran with 30 years of investment management experience. Mr. Lake oversees Lake Partners’ research on mutual funds that utilize alternative strategies. He serves as manager of the firm’s LASSO Long and Short Strategic Opportunities portfolio of alternative mutual funds, a strategy with a 13+ year track record, now available through the Aston/Lake Partners LASSO Alternatives Fund (ALSOX/ALSNX).
Mr. Lake is a noted speaker and author on alternative investments. He has been quoted or highlighted in Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, among other publications. He has appeared on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, as well as on Morningstar.com and TheStreet.com in web videos on alternative strategies in mutual funds. As an invited speaker at the national 2003 SEC Hedge Fund Roundtable, Mr. Lake presented his white paper, “The Democratization of Hedge Funds,” analyzing the public policy issues of alternative strategies in mutual funds. He is also co-editor of the reference book, Private Equity and Venture Capital, published by Euromoney Institutional Investor. Mr. Lake, a cum laude graduate of Harvard, started his investment career with Prudential Securities.
Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer & Senior Strategist, Forward Management LLC
Mr. Mains is Chief Risk Officer and Managing Director of Forward. He has held leadership roles in the areas of research, product development and administration. He was formerly Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley’s Graystone Research—a team focused on creating customized solutions using hedge funds and other alternative investments for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, institutions and foundations. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Mains ran a fund of hedge fund group at Carr Global Advisors. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Product Development for Dow Jones Indexes, a position he accepted after being the Director of Research and Chief Economist at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Mr. Mains has been widely quoted in leading financial publications, appeared regularly on television to discuss financial markets and has co-authored and contributed to several books on financial topics. He holds a BA and MA from the University of Colorado and has earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
THOMAS C. MEYER
Chief Executive Officer, Meyer Capital Group
Thomas Meyer is Chief Executive Officer for Meyer Capital Group, a fee only investment management and financial planning firm dedicated to helping their clients build wealth through a consistent, disciplined investment process. This firm, founded in 1963 by his grandfather, has been providing sound financial advice for over five decades.
Mr. Meyer joined the firm in 1982 and began his career constructing investment portfolios and managing client assets. In 1987, he assumed the position of president and while continuing to focus on providing clients with outstanding customer service, he began preparing the company for change. Mr. Meyer also had the foresight to see the potential growth of alternative investment strategies in a 40 act structure and how this could provide significant benefits to individual investors while reducing investment risk.
Mr. Meyer has once again achieved the “5 Star Advisor” rating with the Paladin Registry. Paladin has developed a systematic process for measuring information that impacts the competence and ethics of financial advisors. Less than 10% of those that applied have been entered into the Registry. He has also received the coveted Dalbar award. This prestigious seal is the voice of our existing clients and is awarded to financial professionals who have exceeded national benchmarks in the areas of trust, client satisfaction, quality of advice and financial results. In 2008, he had been voted to the Barron’s Top 100 Independent Advisors list. Most recently Mr. Meyer was voted as a “Premier Advisor” and awarded the customer service star by NABCAP in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Mr. Meyer has served on the board of directors for the South Jersey Chapter of Spina Bifida, Charles Schwab Advisor Network and on “The Dividend Growth Fund”, a publicly traded mutual fund. He is currently serving as Treasurer for the Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey.
Mr. Meyer has been frequently quoted in print for the Dow Jones News Wire, Barron’s, Investment News, and Financial Planning Magazine. Financial Advisor Magazine featured Mr. Meyer as their cover story for March 2009 covering liquid, transparent alternative mutual funds. For six years he was an instrumental contributor for Comcast’s top rated financial program “Money Matters Today” alongside their Emmy award winning host. He has also been a panelist on CNBC’s “Power Lunch”, “Squawk on the Street” and “On The Money” shows.
He has dedicated his career to educating the public on the Markets and helping his clients obtain their investment objectives.
MATTHEW F. MURPHY, Jr., CFA
Vice President, Eaton Vance Management
Matt Murphy is a vice president of Eaton Vance Management and global portfolio specialist on Eaton Vance’s global fixed-income team.
Mr. Murphy joined Eaton Vance in 2011. Previous experience includes two years spent with Cambridge Associates, LLC as a consulting associate and seven years affiliated with Matrix Capital Markets Group, Inc. as a senior associate.
Mr. Murphy earned a B.S. in business administration with a finance concentration from the University of Richmond. He is a CFA charterholder and member of the CFA Institute and Boston Security Analysts Society.
Portfolio Manager, Driehaus U.S. Long/Short Credit Strategies, Driehaus Capital Management LLC
K.C. Nelson is the Portfolio Manager of the Driehaus U.S. Long/Short
Credit Strategies and oversees all credit strategies for the Firm. As
Portfolio Manager, he oversees approximately $3 billion in assets under management across the Driehaus Active Income Fund (LCMAX), the
Driehaus Select Credit Fund (DRSLX) and the Driehaus Credit Opportunities
Fund, L.P. (as of 7/31/2012). Within these strategies, he
is responsible for implementing a multi-strategy approach to the U.S.
credit markets with an emphasis on achieving absolute returns with
limited volatility. Mr. Nelson has been quoted in numerous financial
publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, and
has appeared as a guest contributor on CNBC. In addition to his role
as Portfolio Manager, Mr. Nelson serves on the Firm’s Management
Committee.
Prior to joining Driehaus Capital Management LLC in 2009, Mr. Nelson
was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Lotsoff Capital Management. While
at Lotsoff, he managed a credit arbitrage hedge fund and a mutual
fund. Mr. Nelson has also held Assistant Portfolio Manager and Analyst
positions at Akela Capital, Andersen Corporate Finance LLC and J.C.
Bradford & Co. He received his B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt
University and an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of
Business, where he was a Keller Scholar.
NADIA PAPAGIANNIS
Alternative Investment Strategist, Morningstar Inc.
Nadia Papagiannis, CFA is the director of alternative fund research for Morningstar. She is also editor of the quarterly newsletter Alternative Investments Observer.
Prior to joining Morningstar in 2005, Ms. Papagiannis was a senior compliance examiner at NASD (now FINRA), auditing broker-dealers. She also worked at the National Futures Association (NFA), auditing firms trading futures and options, including hedge funds.
Ms. Papagiannis holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and French from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Head of Business Development, Principal Funds
David L. Reichart is Head of Business Development for Principal Funds. In this role, he is responsible for the long-term growth of mutual fund products, focusing on specific asset classes and franchise fund products.
Mr. Reichart joined the Principal Financial Group® in 1991. He served as Executive Director of Relationship Management and Distribution for Principal Global Investors before being named Senior Vice President of Principal Management Corporation in 2006. He is responsible for determining the asset allocation, manager selection, and on-going monitoring and rebalancing of the Global Diversified Income Fund, Diversified Real Asset Fund, and Global Multi-Strategy Fund.
Mr. Reichart received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Drake University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from the University of Nebraska. He holds both the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations, and is a Registered Representative of Princor Financial Services Corporation. Mr. Reichart is a member of the CFA Institute and the Life Office Management Association (LOMA), and holds NASD Series 7, 24, 63, and 65 licenses.
Founder and CEO, American Realty Capital
As part of Mr. Schorsch’s vision, ARC formed Realty Capital Securities, LLC (“RCS”), a registered broker-dealer and FINRA member firm as an open architecture broker-dealer in the real estate investment program space. RCS is focused exclusively on the distribution of quality public and private direct investment programs, and currently serves as the distributor for the following publicly registered non-traded REITs: American Realty Capital Trust III, Inc., American Realty Capital Trust IV, Inc., American Realty Capital Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc., American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust, Inc., American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, Inc., American Realty Capital New York Recovery REIT, Inc., American Realty Capital – Retail Centers of America, Inc., Phillips Edison—ARC Shopping Center REIT, Inc., and United Development Funding IV. In addition to non-traded REITs, RCS distributes Business Development Corporation of America. Today RCS has become an industry leading broker-dealer.
In addition to his current activities, Mr. Schorsch in 2002 served as CEO, President, and Vice-Chairman of American Financial Realty Trust (NYSE: “AFR”), a company Mr. Schorsch took public on the NYSE in 2003 and was then, the 2nd largest real estate IPO in U.S. history. AFR became the foremost owner of real estate leased to financial institutions. At AFR Mr. Schorsch spearheaded a number of the most complex transactions in the banking space. Some transactions included: the $770 million acquisition of 158 Bank of America properties; the $705 million State Street Financial Center acquisition in Boston; and the $323 million acquisition of 241 properties from Citizen Bank and Charter One. From its inception, AFR built a customer-centric model designed to create customized solutions that addressed each tenant institution’s overall strategic financial objectives and corporate finance requirements. While at the helm of AFR, Mr. Schorsch acquired 1500 properties with a value of $5.7 billion, and liquidated over 350 properties with a total sale value of $1.73 billion, resulting in a gain of $273 million.
Partner, Head of Dynamic Allocation Strategies Team, William Blair and Company
Brian Singer is the Head of the Dynamic Allocation Strategies Team. Prior to joining William Blair and Company in 2011, he was the Head of Investment Strategies of Singer Partners, LLC. Mr. Singer was the former head of Global Investment Solutions and Americas Chief Investment Officer for UBS Global Asset Management. He was a member of the UBS Group Managing Board and Global Asset Management Executive Committee. Brian was a board member and former chair of the CFA Institute Board of Governors and is also a former member of the Research Foundation of CFA Institute Board of Trustees. He was elected to the Board in 2004 and previously served as chair of the Candidate Curriculum Committee. Brian serves on the Exeter College at Oxford University Endowment Investment Committee and is the chairman of the Milton Friedman inspired organization ‘Free To Choose Network.’ In 1991, Brian co-wrote a landmark update to one of the pioneering studies on asset allocation, ‘Determinants of Portfolio Performance II: An Update,’ with Gary Brinson and Gilbert Beebower. In 2009, Brian was the lead author of ‘Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management’, Wiley Publishing.
Senior Vice President of Asset Management and CIO, Curian Capital
Steve Young is Senior Vice President of Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer for Curian Capital, LLC. Mr. Young has management responsibility for all asset management related activities including oversight of the portfolio construction process and the asset manager selection and monitoring processes.
As Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee, Mr. Young directs a team of senior Curian executives with a mandate to maintain the company’s ethical investing standards and identify new growth opportunities for Curian, its partners and its clients.
Prior to joining Curian, Mr. Young served as Chief Investment Strategist, Head of Asset Allocation and Chairman of the Investment Strategy Committee for Bank of America’s Wealth and Investment Management Group. His responsibilities included investment strategy, asset allocation, and direction of the quantitative research teams for the firm’s private bank, institutional and brokerage clients. Additionally, Mr. Young was the manager for the billion-dollar series of Nations LifeGoal Portfolio Mutual Funds and frequently appeared on financial news networks to represent the firm’s investment views.
Mr. Young holds the professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst and received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University.
Curian Capital, LLC acts as the Registered Investment Advisor for Curian Custom Style Portfolios. Investing in securities involves certain risks, including possible loss of principal.
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Chief Investment Officer, Wilshire Funds Management
Victor Zhang, a managing director with Wilshire Associates, joined the firm in January 2006 and has 14 years of industry experience in asset allocation, manager research, portfolio management, and wealth management. As Head of Investments for Wilshire Funds Management, Mr. Zhang leads the overall investment activities of the group, including manager search and portfolio management. Mr. Zhang also chairs the Wilshire Funds Management Investment Committee. Prior to joining Wilshire Associates, he served as Director of Investments and other senior investment positions with the leading multi-family office firm Harris myCFO Investment Advisory Services, a subsidiary of Bank of Montreal. Mr. Zhang advised on all investment issues, including asset allocation, manager research, portfolio construction, and risk management for large family offices in the country.
Previous to Harris myCFO, Mr. Zhang was a Senior Investment Consultant with the global services firm Ernst & Young, LLP. He earned his BA in Business Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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