| Lewis Altfest CEO, Chief Investment Officer and Principal Advisor Altfest Personal Wealth Management Lewis J. Altfest, PhD, is CEO, Chief Investment Officer, and a Principal Advisor for Altfest Personal Wealth Management. Prior to founding the firm in 1983, he was a General Partner and Director of Research for Lord Abbett & Co. Dr Altfest began his investment career as a research analyst at Wertheim & Co.
Dr Altfest was the sole recipient of the 2007 Charles R. Schwab IMPACT Award® – arguably the highest distinction in the profession – for his sustained vision, outstanding leadership and client commitment. He was named one of the “Best Financial Advisers” in the country by Barron’s, as well as by Money, Worth, Mutual Funds, Medical Economics, and Dental Practice Report magazines. In 2012, he was named to Financial Advisor magazine’s 2012 Due Diligence/Research Manager All-Star Team. His academic textbook, Personal Financial Planning, was published by McGraw Hill and is currently used at leading universities around the country. Dr Altfest is co-author of Lew Altfest Answers Almost All Your Questions About Money, which was named one of the best financial planning books by Money magazine, and co-author of An Introduction to Business.
A founding member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), Dr Altfest has served on its board of directors. He was selected as one of NAPFA’s 30 Most Influential in 2013. | |
| John Apruzzese Partner, Chief Investment Officer Evercore Wealth Management John Apruzzese is the Chief Investment Officer of Evercore Wealth Management, responsible for the firm's market outlook and asset allocation policy. He has over 25 years of experience in managing balanced investment portfolios for high-net-worth clients.
Prior to joining Evercore Wealth Management in 2008, Mr Apruzzese was a Managing Director of US Trust, which he joined in 1984. He was directly responsible for managing $2 billion of client assets, representing many of US Trust's most significant clients. Additionally, he served as Chief Investment Officer of US Trust of New York from 2003 to 2005, and the Head of Equity Investments and Chair of the Equity Investment Committee from 2005 to 2008. For fifteen years, he was an active participant in the formulation of overall investment strategy and a member of the US Trust Investment Strategy Committee.
Prior to attending business school, Mr Apruzzese was on the staff of the US Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and worked on federal budget matters.
Mr Apruzzese received his BA from Bucknell University in 1980, an MBA from New York University in 1984, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a former member of the Board of the New York Society of Security Analysts.
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| Chris Bertinelli Regional Director Brandes Investment Partners Chris Bertinelli is the Regional Director responsible for developing and managing relationships by offering consultative solutions to Financial Advisors and their clients in the New York Metro region. Prior to joining Brandes, Mr Bertinelli was a director of intermediary sales for Tocqueville Asset Management. He also held regional sales director positions at Ashfield Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. In addition, he managed an internal sales team at Fred Alger & Co. Mr.Bertinelli earned his BA in International Relations from Boston University and holds a Certified Investment Manager Analyst DesignationSM (CIMA®). He has 15 years of investment experience. | |
| Jylanne Dunne Senior Vice President Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services Jylanne Dunne is Senior Vice President of Practice Management and Consulting. In this role, she is responsible for oversight and development of all comprehensive practice management programs and consulting to help advisors accelerate growth, streamline operations and manage risk. Ms Dunne joined Fidelity Investments in 2007 as a senior vice president responsible for national sales of custody and trading to existing advisors and new entrants to the asset management channel. With over 25 years of financial services experience, Ms Dunne previously was an executive vice president of Global Sales for BISYS Fund Services and also held senior management positions in relationship management and sales at First Data (currently BONY Global Fund Services). She has also held positions at The Boston Company, Putnam Investments and Xtra Corporation. Ms Dunne received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College and hold Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses. | |
| Milton Ezrati Partner, Senior Economist and Market Strategist Lord Abbett & Co. Milton Ezrati, a Partner and Lord Abbett’s Senior Economist and Market Strategist, is responsible for economic research and strategy, enabling clients to gain context and a further understanding of today’s global markets.
Mr Ezrati joined Lord Abbett in 2000 and was named a Partner in 2004. Prior to joining Lord Abbett, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Investing for the Americas at Nomura Asset Management USA. He began his career in the financial services industry in 1971.
A recognized authority on a range of global and domestic financial issues, Mr Ezrati speaks to audiences across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He frequently contributes to and is quoted in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and The Financial Times, and appears on financial television providing market commentary.
Mr Ezrati is the author of Kawari, one of the foremost books detailing the economic changes
in Japan. He is an Affiliate of the Center on Human Capital and Economic Growth in the Department of Economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo and has given lectures at several schools, including New York University and the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
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| Robert Fanelli Vice President, Head of Manager Research John Hancock Investments Robert Fanelli is Vice President, Head of Manager Research at John Hancock Investments, responsible for all third-party and internal asset manager relationships across the John Hancock and Manulife investment platforms in the United States and Asia.
Mr Fanelli’s role includes the selection, monitoring, and ongoing review of over 300 strategies managed by more than 60 of the world’s premier asset managers. These firms manage more than $100 billion for John Hancock and Manulife products, including annuities, mutual funds, college savings, retirement plans, and insurance of 14 research analysts supporting investment platforms in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to joining John Hancock, Mr Fanelli was the Senior Manager of Iinvestments at EMC Corporation where he directed a $7.5 billion corporate cash portfolio and a $365 million defined benefit plan.
Mr Fanelli is a chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder, a member of the CFA Institute, and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Boston University.
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| Dan Farley CIO, Investment Solutions Group State Street Global Advisors Mr Farley is a Senior Managing Director of State Street Global Advisors, and the Chief Investment Officer for SSgA's Investment Solutions Group (ISG). In this role, he is responsible for the management and development of asset allocation strategies for institutional clients worldwide. His responsibilities include the design and management of Liability Driven Investments, tactical asset allocation and overlay strategies. He is a member of SSgA's Executive Management Group. Prior to this role, he was the Head of the US MACS team.
Mr Farley holds a BSBA from Stonehill College and an MBA from Bentley College, and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of CFA Institute and the Boston Securities Analyst Society. He has been a frequent speaker on the topics of asset allocation, liability driven investments and investment management for endowments/foundations. Mr Farley also serves on the Board of Directors of the Crispus Attucks Children's Center in Dorchester, MA. | |
| Stephen Foley US Investment Correspondent Financial Times Stephen Foley is US investment correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the asset management industry, hedge funds and institutional and retail investment issues. He is based in New York. Previously, Foley was a markets correspondent for the FT, covering bond and credit derivatives, market developments, regulatory reform and their impact on the wider economy.
Prior to joining the FT, Foley was the Associate Business Editor of The Independent, where he covered the credit crisis and US business issues in New York. Prior to this, he covered the UK stock market and the pharmaceuticals industry for The Independent in London.
In March 2009, he was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.
Foley holds a degree from Cambridge University, as well as a diploma in Newspaper Journalism from City University in London.
Find him on twitter at @stephenfoley. | |
| Paul Ghaffari Chief Investment Officer Vulcan Capital Paul Ghaffari is the Chief Investment Officer of Vulcan Capital. He is responsible for overall asset allocation of Vulcan's multi-billion-dollar investment portfolio, with oversight of investments in public and private securities in traditional and alternative asset classes.
Formerly, Mr Ghaffari founded and served as portfolio manager of Palatine Hill Partners LLC, an equity-focused investment company, and Capitoline LLC, a global credit fund. He was a founding partner of FrontPoint Partners LLC, a multi-strategy alternatives asset management firm which was sold in 2006 to Morgan Stanley.
Before co-founding FrontPoint, Mr Ghaffari was a portfolio manager at Soros Fund Management. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Asset Management and established MSAM's emerging markets fixed-income business. Mr Ghaffari began his career at J.P. Morgan, serving as a Vice President of J.P. Morgan Securities.
Mr Ghaffari received a BA from Pomona College and a MSc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. | |
| Bruce Greenwald Professor of Finance and Asset Management Columbia University School of Business Bruce Corman Norbert Greenwald is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Business. He is, among others, the author of the books Value Investing: from Graham to Buffett and Beyond and Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy. He has been referred to by The New York Times as "a guru to Wall Street's gurus," and is a recognized authority on value investing, along with additional expertise in productivity and the economics of information.
Professor Greenwald has been recognized for his outstanding teaching abilities. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award which honors the best of Columbia's teachers for maintaining the University's longstanding reputation for educational excellence. His classes are consistently oversubscribed, with more than 650 students taking his courses every year in subjects such as Value Investing, Economics of Strategic Behavior, Globalization of Markets, and Strategic Management of Media. | |
| Kevin Grieve Regional Manager | New England Region Brandes Investment Partners Kevin Grieve is a Regional Manager responsible for developing and managing relationships by offering consultative solutions to Financial Advisors and their clients in the New England Region of the United States. Prior to Brandes, Mr Grieve spent about seven years as a Senior Regional Investment Consultant for Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Inc., where he was in charge of the distribution of Fidelity products to Financial Advisors at the national wire house firms in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Before Fidelity, Mr Grieve began his career in the financial services industry as a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer & Co in Providence, RI. Mr Grieve earned his BS in Business Administration from Endicott College. He is a Certified Investment Manager Analyst Designation(CIMA®) and is an active member of the Investment Management Consultants Association. | |
| Peter Henry Dean Stern School of Business Administration, New York University Peter Henry is the dean of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he is also the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Finance. Henry joined NYU Stern from Stanford University in January 2010. Henry serves as a member of the board of directors at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kraft Foods, Inc., and is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution. An expert on the global economy, Henry led the external economics advisory group for then-Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 and the Presidential Transition Team’s review of international lending agencies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In June 2009, President Obama appointed him to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, Henry is best known for a series of publications that overturn conventional wisdom on the topics of debt relief, international capital flows, and the role of institutions in economic growth. His book, TURNAROUND: Third World Lessons for First World Growth (Basic Books, March 2013), addresses issues of economic efficiency as well as matters of international relations. Dean Henry received his PhD in economics from MIT and Bachelor’s degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar and a finalist in the 1991 campus-wide slam dunk competition. | |
| Andrew Hoffmann Senior Vice President PIMCO Andrew Hoffmann is a Senior Vice President in the Newport Beach office. He focuses on alternative investments within PIMCO’s global wealth management group, where he engages with clients on private alternative investment strategies. In addition, Mr Hoffmann is one of the firm's senior strategists for liquid alternative investments. Previously at PIMCO, he was a portfolio manager focused on global real asset investment strategies. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2010, he was with the private equity funds group at Brookfield Asset Management. Previously, he was Managing Director of Investments and Portfolio Manager at a multi-billion-dollar single family investment office in Palo Alto, California. Prior to this, he was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in London, and he was also based in Asia as head of utilities and infrastructure investment banking for Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific. He has 23 years of investment experience and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. | |
| Brian Hunter Managing Director Strategic Capital Allocation Group Brian Hunter is currently the Managing Director of Strategic Capital Allocation Group LLC (“SCA”), a firm he founded on October 1, 2001.
Previously, Mr Hunter was with Prudential Securities, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Throughout these affiliations, he has built a unique corporate and institutional consulting practice that concentrates on achieving maximum capability for risk-controlled assets. At the core of his work, Mr Hunter’s patented dynamic asset allocation and risk management platform – Quatrain – has empowered his clients to make critical decisions with conviction. That conviction stems from a realistic view of the non-normal interactive behavior of investments and a “motion picture” of the dynamic tradeoff between relative risk and relative return. Mr Hunter has consulted on over $11 billion in SCA client assets with a goal of enhancing those assets towards improved levels of efficiency. His clients have included renowned hospital systems, foundations, trusts, family offices and multi-strategy investment management firms. Prior to his tenure at Lehman Brothers, Mr Hunter's experience includes his own consulting firms for derivative portfolio management and international relocation policies and systems on behalf of multinational companies and professional service firms. Clients included McKinsey & Company and Northrop. Mr Hunter’s initial consulting experience was in competitive strategy assignments while at the Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. | |
| Robert Johnson Director of Economic Analysis Morningstar Robert Johnson, CFA is Director of Economic Analysis for Morningstar. In this role, he meets regularly with Morningstar’s sector teams to gather up-to-the minute economic data from more than 90 Morningstar equity and credit analysts. He disseminates this information to other sector teams and to Morningstar subscribers via weekly columns and videos on Morningstar.com. In addition, Mr Johnson provides general economic data to individual analysts to help them formulate their opinions on debt and equity securities.
Prior to assuming his current role in 2008, Mr Johnson was an associate director of equity analysis for Morningstar’s technology team for more than four years.
Mr Johnson has more than 30 years of investment industry experience, including both buy-side and sell-side assignments as a research analyst. His work experience includes stints at Stein Roe & Farnham, Rotan Mosle, and ABN AMRO and has involved extensive exposure to technology names.
Mr Johnson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Business administration from Carroll College and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard University. Mr Johnson also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of CFA Society of Chicago. | |
| Gerard Klingman Founder and President Klingman and Associates With more than 30 years of experience, Gerard Klingman is widely recognized as a leader in the field of investments and financial planning. In 2011, Research Magazine named Mr Klingman to its “Advisor Hall of Fame”. In 2008, America's premier financial weekly magazine, Barron's, started its annual ranking of the America's Top 100 Independent Advisors. Mr Klingman has been named to the list every year and has been a featured speaker at the Top 100 annual conference. (Award is based on assets under management, contribution to the firm's revenues and profits, and indications of service quality). In 2013, Mr Klingman was named to the inaugural FT 400, a ranking of America’s top financial advisors by the Financial Times.
Mr Klingman received a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Princeton University in 1983. He attained his Certified Financial Planner™ certification from the College of Financial Planning in 1989, and later earned CLU® and ChFC® designations from the American College.
Klingman & Associates, LLC is a SEC Registered RIA that provides financial planning and investment advisory services to corporate executives, entrepreneurs, professional athletes and other high-net-worth individuals. The firm manages over $1.2 billion in assets. | |
| Daniel Loewy Co-Chief Investment Officer and Research Director of Dynamic Asset Allocation AllianceBernstein Daniel Loewy is the Co-Chief Investment Officer and Research Director of Dynamic Asset Allocation and is a Partner at AllianceBernstein. He oversees all aspects of the firm’s Dynamic Asset Allocation portfolios, including research, portfolio construction and new product design. Mr Loewy leads the Dynamic Allocation Investment Policy Group (the ADAPT Group) and is a member of the Real Asset Investment Policy Group and the firm’s Target Date Investment Oversight Team. Mr Loewy previously led the Wealth Management Group’s research on the major investment issues facing our highest-net-worth clients, including asset allocation, alternative investments and tax management. Prior to that, he was a research analyst in the equity research department, where he followed the aerospace and defense and capital goods sectors. Additionally, Mr Loewy has served as an associate portfolio manager for value equity services. He holds a BS in Industrial and Labor relations from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia University. Mr Loewy is a CFA charterholder. | |
| Clarke Moody Portfolio Specialist Harding Loevner Clarke Moody is the Portfolio Specialist for Harding Loevner’s Global Equity, International Equity and Emerging Markets Equity strategies. He has 30 years of industry experience, working in corporate finance for global institutions such as the Chase Manhattan Bank, Barclays de Zoette Wedd, ABN Amro, and, since 1996, Harding Loevner. At Harding Loevner, he has held positions as Analyst, Client Portfolio Manager and Director of Marketing. He is a member of the Management Committee. Mr Moody graduated from Colby College in 1978 with a BA in English Literature and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. | |
| Jackie Noblett Reporter Ignites Jackie Noblett covers technology, back-office operations and exchange-traded funds at Ignites, a daily publication of the Financial Times focused on the retail asset management industry. Prior to Ignites, she was a reporter at the Boston Business Journal covering technology and alternative energy businesses across New England. Ms Noblett received her Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Emerson College. | |
| John O'Hara Senior Advisor and Managing Director Rockefeller & Co. John O’Hara is a Senior Advisor and Managing Director of Rockefeller & Co. Mr O’Hara focuses on institutional marketing activities for the Company’s Asset Management Division.
Prior to joining Rockefeller in 2011, Mr O’Hara served as Chief Operating Officer of Franklin Street Partners, an independent wealth management firm based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He previously worked as a Managing Director in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs, as well as of the Commodities Corporation, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 1997.
Mr O’Hara received an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and a BA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Mr O’Hara serves as a Trustee of the National Humanities Center, a board member of the Institute for the Arts & Humanities at UNC, as President of the Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation and as a member of the Board of Governors of UNC Press. | |
| Robert Pavlik Chief Investment Strategist Banyan Partners, LLC Robert Pavlik is an investment industry veteran of more than 26 years. As the former Chief Investment Officer of Oaktree Asset Management in New York, Mr Pavlik began his investment career in 1987 with Laidlaw, Adams & Peck as an assistant portfolio manager before serving as a senior analyst with the Borders Group and later returning to Laidlaw as vice president of Asset Management. Prior to joining Oaktree in 1999, Mr Pavlik was a vice president and trader with Matrix Capital Group.
Mr Pavlik is also a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts, the CFA Institute and the Professional Risk Manager Industry Association. A well-recognized industry expert, Mr Pavlik is a frequent guest on CNBC television, Fox Business News and CBS radio, along with several international television stations and is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Market Watch, and other leading financial publications. Mr Pavlik earned an MBA from the University of Bridgeport and a BS in Finance from Central Connecticut State University.
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| Mark Peters Managing Director Global Head of Wealth Management Jefferies Mark Peters is the Global Head of Wealth Management at Jefferies. Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr Peters served as Executive Vice President and Head of Private Wealth Management at SunTrust Bank, a business that included International Wealth Management, Sports & Entertainment Banking, Personal Asset Management and SunTrust Investment Services. He was also formerly the CEO of SunTrust Institutional Investment Advisors, a RIA serving institutional clients, and Head of Institutional Investment Solutions, a provider of investment services for Employee Benefits, Foundation & Endowment and Escrow Custody clients. Before joining SunTrust, Mr Peters served as Managing Director and Head of US Private Wealth Management at Deutsche Bank. Previously, he had a similar role at Citigroup Private Bank, was a Managing Director of Private Client Services at DLJ Securities and its successor, and also worked for 14 years at Goldman Sachs Private Client Services. Mr Peters received an MBA from the University of Miami and a BA from the University of Illinois. | |
| Arthur Salzer CEO and Chief Investment Officer Northland Wealth Management Arthur C. Salzer, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of the Canadian multi-family office Northland Wealth Management, has more than 22 years of investment experience. Mr Salzer began his career as a real estate analyst for a family-owned investment business, then held increasingly senior roles with the largest bank-owned investment counsel in Canada where he gained exposure to hedge funds, private equity, equities and fixed income while advising high net worth families. Mr Salzer then spent seven years with of one of Canada's oldest independent investment counseling firms where he had the opportunity to be mentored by a recipient of the Morningstar Career Achievement Award. Mr Salzer is an active member of the local and international chapters of the CFA Society and the Family Firm Institute (FFI). He has also acted as a member of the Policy and Action Committee for Finance & Taxation for the Province of Ontario and won the President's Award from the Triathlon Club of Burlington for fundraising and involvement with the Kids of Steel. Mr Salzer is called upon by the national media frequently for his insight, market analysis and commentary. A graduate of McMaster University where he earned a BA in Economics, he also holds the designations of Certified Investment Manager and Chartered Financial Analyst. | |
| Luciano Siracusano Chief Investment Strategist & Head of Sales WisdomTree Asset Management Luciano Siracusano is the Chief Investment Strategist and Head of Sales for WisdomTree. Mr Siracusano oversaw the creation and development of the company’s proprietary Index methodology and other intellectual property. Before joining WisdomTree in 1999, he was an equity analyst at Value Line, Inc. Prior to his career in finance, Mr Siracusano served as Special Assistant to HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and as Special Assistant to New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo. Mr Siracusano is a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University. | |
| Tom Stabile Associate Editor and Senior Reporter FundFire Tom Stabile is Associate Editor and Senior Reporter for FundFire covering wealth management and the high-net-worth advisory business. He has worked as a reporter and editor at magazines, newspapers, and trade publications in New York, Washington, DC, and Santo Domingo covering business, politics, education, public affairs, criminal justice, and the arts. | |
| Owen Walker Managing Editor Ignites Owen Walker is Managing Editor of Ignites. He previously worked at a number of titles within the Financial Times's asset management division in London, covering institutional and retail pensions and investments. Mr Walker holds a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from Cardiff University. | |
| Jason White Vice President T. Rowe Price Group Jason A. White is a Vice President of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc, and T. Rowe Price International Ltd and a portfolio specialist in the equity division. Mr White is a member of the international equity investment team, participates in investment strategy calls, and regularly travels with other investment professionals to visit companies around the world. Prior to joining the firm in 2004, he was a principal of State Street Global Advisors and an investment analyst on the global active equity investment team, where he covered various non-U.S. equity strategies. Mr White earned an AB in Economics from Kenyon College, an MEng in Operations Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. | |
| Leo Zerilli Head of Investments John Hancock Investments Leo Zerilli is Head of Investments, serving as Chief Investment Officer for John Hancock Advisers, LLC, and for John Hancock Investment Management Services, LLC, the investment advisor for the funds.
Mr Zerilli and his team are responsible for product development, manager selection, and ongoing investment oversight of performance and risk for a wide range of products, including mutual funds, institutional accounts, investment-only retirement portfolios, and college savings plans. This suite of products represents more than 34 asset manager relationships, 73 portfolio teams, and 112 distinct investment strategies. In addition, the team is responsible for strategic development of exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, asset allocation products, offshore funds, and managed accounts.
Mr Zerilli joined John Hancock in 1997 and has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility within the company. He is a member of the Board of Directors for John Hancock Funds, LLC, the distributor of the funds, John Hancock Advisers, LLC, and John Hancock Investment Management Services, LLC. Mr Zerilli is also a Certified Investment Management Analyst and a member of the Investment Management Consultants Association. He holds an M.B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston University and a B.A. from Colgate University.
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