Enhancing direct indexing with Tax Advantaged Long/Short SMA Strategies – Nuveen – 9.4.25

Summary:

On Demand CE
While traditional tax-loss harvesting can be a very effective tool for most portfolios, there are client situations that warrant more powerful tools. Learn how advisors are using tax-advantaged long/short SMA strategies to help clients:

• Accelerate the diversification of a concentrated position.
• Offset gains from a (future) transaction.
• Reset cost basis in highly appreciated portfolios.
• Potentially replace long-only direct indexing.

Accepted for 1 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credit

Speakers:

Erkko Etula is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Brooklyn Investment Group. He leads the firm’s strategic direction and oversees traditional direct indexing, tax advantaged long short portfolios, and multi asset solutions in partnership with Nuveen.

Prior to cofounding Brooklyn Investment Group, Erkko was Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he gained over a decade of investment experience creating and managing systematic investment processes for Goldman Sachs clients.

Erkko began his career as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and has also served as an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business. He has published in top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Portfolio Management. He is winner of the 2015 Amundi Smith Breeden Prize for outstanding capital markets research and the 2016 Engle Prize in financial econometrics.

Erkko earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University where he was a Presidential Scholar. He also holds a B.S., Phi Beta Kappa, from MIT.

Katrina has over a decade of experience building multi-asset portfolios across public and private markets. As a senior member of Nuveen’s Portfolio Strategy and Solutions team, she develops and delivers custom analytics, thought leadership and portfolio construction views to investment advisors and their clients.

Prior to joining Nuveen, Katrina was a Portfolio Strategist at BlackRock working with wirehouse advisors in major metropolitan areas. She also worked in BlackRock’s separately managed account business, building customized investment solutions for high net worth individuals. Katrina started her career at Deloitte.

Katrina graduated with a B.S. from Bucknell University. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst^® & CPA designations and is a member of CFA Society of New York.