How the Best invest

Robert Macrae, London School of Economics, Systemic Risk Centre.

Robert has spent the last 25 years applying an engineering approach to problems in investment, and more recently systemic risk. Areas of interest include value investment in equities, hedge funds, risk control and financial regulation.

Dan diBartolomeo, President & Founder Northfield Information Services.

Mr. diBartolomeo is President and founder of Northfield Information Services, Inc. Based in Boston since 1986, Northfield develops quantitative models of financial markets. He sits on boards of numerous industry organizations include IAQF and CQA and is past president of the Boston Economic Club. His publication record includes almost fifty books, book chapters and research journal articles.

Veronica van Nierop, Neuroscientist, Expert on the Investor Brain.

I have experienced 27 years as a clinical practitioner, university lecturer and finally a coach and mentor engaged by a wide variety of people wanting to achieve their goals and aspirations. I have been recruited by boards of large companies to work with their leaders and managers in maintaining a high level of performance and wellbeing, in demanding and rapidly changing marketplaces.

Daniel GladiŠ, Director at Vltava Fund.

Daniel graduated from VUT Brno. In 1993-1998 he was the director of Atlantik Financial Markets, a.s., a member of the Prague Stock Exchange, which he founded. In 1999-2004 he was the director of ABN AMRO Asset Management (Czech), a.s. In 2004, he founded the investment fund Vltava Fund SICAV. Vltava Fund is a global equity investment fund dedicated to qualified investors. Daniel Gladiš is the author of Naučte se investovat (Learn to Invest) and Akciové investice (Stock Investments).

Richard Peterson,  MD, CEO, MarketPsych.

Dr. Richard Peterson is CEO and founder of the MarketPsych brand. He leads MarketPsych's data and asset management divisions. He has trained thousands of professionals globally to leverage behavioral insights. Dr. Peterson is a board-certified psychiatrist.

Kurt Winkelmann, Founder of Navega Strategies, Llc. Former Global Head of Research at MSCI, Inc.

Kurt Winkelmann is founder of Navega Strategies, Llc. He is also a member of the Investment Risk Advisory Panel for the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Chair of the Advisory Board for the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute at the University of Minnesota; a Trustee Emeritus for the University of Minnesota Foundation and a former Director of the Alberta Investment Management Company.

Dominic Fisher OBE, Founder Thistledown Investment Management Ltd.

I founded Thistledown Investment Management in 2009 to invest my money following a value style, and have been investing since 1989. I serve as a director and on the audit committee of Aberforth Split Level Income Trust Plc a £200m listed investment trust. I am currently a specially appointed commissioner of The Royal Hospital Chelsea and head its investment committee. I also serve as a trustee of The Clinical Human Factors 'the charity aiming to make healthcare safer'.

Danilo Santiago, Founding Partner at Rational Investment Methodology.

Experienced Portfolio Manager and Analysts that uses fundamentals-based research for price discovery and a quantitative portfolio buildup and trading tool developed using Python and VBA to achieve competitive long-term returns. Skilled in Investment Management, Hedge Funds, Equity Research, Value Investing, and Coding/Programming. Reliable entrepreneurship professional with an MBA focused on Finance and Economics from Columbia Business School. 

Miguel Burguet, Managing Director at Marlowe Capital & Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre.

Miguel Burguet is Portfolio Manager at Marlowe Capital and Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre of the London School of Economics.

Marlowe Capital is a macro global investment manager focused on a small investment niche: commercial banks equities. We try to find stable macro situations around the globe and we invest in them through a portfolio with a limited number of banks equities on a “best ideas” basis.

Gary Mishuris, Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer at Silver Ring Value Partners.

Gary Mishuris is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Silver Ring Value Partners, an investment firm with a concentrated long-term intrinsic value strategy. He also teaches the Value Investing Seminar at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. He began his career in 2001 at Fidelity as an Equity Research Associate. Mr. Mishuris received a S.B. in Computer Science and a S.B. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Stuart Mitchell, Managing Partner and CIO of S. W. Mitchell Capital.

Stuart is the Managing Partner and CIO of S. W. Mitchell Capital and the Investment Manager of the SWMC European Fund, as well as a number of managed accounts. Prior to founding SWMC in 2005, Stuart was a Principal, Director and Head of Specialist Equities at J O Hambro Investment Management (JOHIM, now Waverton Investment Management).

Victor Haghani, Co-Founder LTCM, Founder Elm Partners.

Victor founded Elm in 2011 to help himself and his friends manage their savings in an efficient and disciplined manner, and to capture the long-term returns they ought to earn. He has spent nearly 30 years actively involved in markets and financial innovation, having been a Managing Director in the bond-arbitrage group at Salomon Brothers and later a founding partner of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM).

Dori Levanoni, Partner, Chief Investment Strategist, First Quadrant LP.

Dori Levanoni is a senior member of First Quadrant’s Investments team. In his more than two decades with First Quadrant, Dori has been involved in nearly every aspect of the firm’s investment process, contributing to research, risk measurement, risk allocation, portfolio optimization, trading, and portfolio management. Dori has played an integral role as portfolio manager for a number of strategies across the firm’s global macro and global equity platforms, and has also contributed his insights to various research projects, journals, publications and speaking engagements.

Raghu Suryanarayanan, Partner & Founder, Navega Strategies Llc.

Raghu is a co-founder and partner of Navega Strategies. Prior to Navega, he was an Executive Director at MSCI, where he focused on multi-asset class research. He and his team were responsible for applying new macro finance research to develop and bring to market macro-based risk models. Those models help institutional investors assess the impact of macro scenarios on global, multi-asset class returns. Raghu also developed and implemented models to manage the risk of alternative investments, including direct real estate and private equity. And, he researched portfolio construction methods for investable equity factor (“smart beta”) indices.

Francesco Filia, CEO & CIO, Fasanara Capital.

Francesco heads all portfolio management and research related activities at Fasanara. Prior to co-founding Fasanara, Francesco was Managing Director and EMEA Head of the MidCaps & Principal Investors group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a top producing investment practice. In his role, Francesco directed Bank of America Merrill Lynch operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa with responsibilities on multi- strategy, multi-assets portfolio solutions.

Michael Kollo, General Manager, Faethm AI, Host at Qurious Quant.

Michael Kollo is a seasoned investment professional with a deep passion for the pragmatic discussion and application of quantitative models to solve problems. Kollo is an experienced speaker, author, mentor, a keen student of philosophy and more recently, a podcaster. The Curious Quant is a series of conversations with market leaders, deep thinkers and practitioners who deal with the wonder and frustrations of these models and who are on the front line of AI innovation.

Vinesh Jha, CEO, Extract Alpha.

Vinesh founded ExtractAlpha in 2013 in Hong Kong with the mission of bringing analytical rigor to the analysis and marketing of new data sets for the capital markets. From 1999 to 2005, Vinesh was the Director of Quantitative Research at StarMine in San Francisco, where he developed industry leading metrics of sell side analyst performance as well as successful commercial alpha signals and products based on analyst, fundamental, and other data sources. Most recently he was Executive Director at PDT Partners, a spinoff of Morgan Stanley's premiere quant prop trading group, where in addition to research he also applied his experience in the communication of complex quantitative concepts to investor relations.