Diversification Failed: Evolve your portfolio to avoid the next diversification trap – Convexitas – 10.13.23

Overview:

Title: Diversification Failed: Evolve your portfolio to avoid the next diversification trap
Date: Friday, October 13, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Achieving diversification has rarely been a greater challenge. Portfolio construction used to be easy: fixed income provided a ballast for riskier allocations. Next came more alternative investments which may have offered zero correlations but frequently limited liquidity. Now we are in a period of higher inflation yet again forcing a rethink of portfolio construction.

Join the experts at Convexitas as they discuss portfolio construction goals, look at what has and has not worked, and discuss our views on the next generation of tools advisors might consider to improve diversification and liquidity. Topics will include:

  • A modern framework of portfolio construction goals that emphasizes growth, stability, opportunity, and liquidity
  • How the use of traditional fixed income and alternatives have evolved, succeeded, and failed as diversifiers
  • Introducing explicit negatively correlated strategies to the portfolio construction process

Accepted for 1 CFP® / IWI / CFA CE Credit

Speakers:

Devin Anderson Devin Anderson CEO & Co-Founder Convexitas

Devin is the CEO and co-founder of Convexitas, an investment manager dedicated to delivering high performance derivative overlays for families and institutions. Devin is responsible for firm governance, compliance, business development, and technology.

Before Convexitas, he was at Deutsche Bank for 15 years where he most recently was Managing Director and Head of Solutions in the Americas leading the structuring and sales teams which designed and distributed the risk premia, retail structured product, and the fund derivative businesses. His Deutsche Bank experience also includes covering institutional clients for listed options and OTC derivatives. Prior to the financial services industry, Devin had a previous career in technology where he held both engineering and sales roles at two early stage internet service & datacenter hosting providers, and former search engine Lycos. He holds a Bachelor of Finance from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon, where he also guest lectures on options and option market micro-structure. A native of Pittsburgh, Devin now lives in southern Connecticut with his wife and two children.

Zed Francis Zed Francis CIO & Co-Founder Convexitas

As Convexitas’ co-founder and CIO, Zed is responsible for strategy design, implementation, risk management and business development. In his 15-year career in investment management, Zed has taken on leadership roles that have informed the delivery of consistent and transparent multi- asset solutions as a discretionary fiduciary acting on behalf of institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals. He was most recently a portfolio manager and derivative overlay manager at SpiderRock Advisors.

Previous engagements include portfolio management at institutional investment manager Legal & General Investment Management America and trading head at long/short distressed hedge fund Chicago Fundamental Investment Partners.

Outside of work, The YWCA Chicago mission resonates with Zed and he assists in their continued success by participating in the Impact Investing Advisory Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University. A native of Chicago, Zed lives in his hometown with his wife and two daughters.

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