Efficient access to the high-yield market – Deutsche Asset Management – 9.14.17

Summary:

Now On Demand.

Join us for a discussion on the current trading environment in high-yield ETFs, portfolio construction, benchmark tracking and how these funds have been implemented in pension portfolios.

A panel of experts will discuss:

• High-yield ETFs liquidity, secondary market, portfolio construction and benchmark tracking
• A case for high-yield in the long- and short-term
• Our solution: Deutsche X-trackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYLB)

Sponsors of this webcast may contact registrants. This webcast is for financial professionals only.

Speakers:

Luke Oliver – Head of U.S. ETF Capital Markets for Deutsche X-trackers, is one of the founding members of the U.S. business, joining in 2009.

In this capacity Luke has been a prominent member of the team that manages 40 exchange traded products and $14bn in assets under DBX Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisor. Mr. Oliver’s responsibilities have included portfolio management, product development and is now focused on running capital market liquidity for the growing U.S. business. Prior to joining the DBX business in 2009, Mr. Oliver worked in Deutsche Bank’s award winning Foreign Exchange business in both London and New York.

Joined the Company in 2010. Prior to his current role, Tanuj was responsible for trading and market making of European fixed income ETFs, structured funds, index swaps and options within the Fixed Income Derivatives Group in Corporate Banking & Securities BTech and MTech (Dual Degree) in Industrial Engineering & Management from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

A veteran to institutional investing for over two decades, Mr. Shantz currently serves as the Director of Fixed Income, as well as a member of its Risk Committee and hedge fund investment committee, for the $27 billion Employee Retirement System of Texas. He conceived and led the transformation of its traditional core-plus style fixed income mandate into the two separate and distinct Rates and Credit ones utilizing both internal and external managers. Prior to ERS Mr. Shantz was a Managing Director and Investment Committee member for the Lockheed Martin Investment Management Company, where in early 2006 he initiated a similar transformation of its $6 billion defined benefit plan’s core-plus style fixed income portfolio to a long duration U.S. Treasury mandate combined with opportunistic credit. Eventually overseeing the company’s entire $23 billion savings plan. Recruited to Lockheed from the senior fixed income portfolio manager’s role at the $40 billion Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System. Mr. Shantz additionally served on the investment committee for Sandia National Laboratories, and is a former president of the Nashville Society of Financial Analyst (the local affiliate of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1996, performed his Ph.D. studies in Finance at the University of Tennessee, and graduated with honors in Economics from Rhodes College, where he won the Wall Street Journal student achievement award in Finance. In 2014, he won the Institutional Investors’ Investor Intelligence Award for Fixed Income & Credit, and played the pivotal role in his employer winning 2015’s ETF.com Best Institutional ETF User Award, as well as conceiving and seeding ETF.com’s 2016 Best New U.S. Fixed-Income ETF.

Ashley is an institutional sales specialist for the Passive team, focusing on Deutsche AM’s X-trackers ETF platform and passive capabilities.

Prior to joining Deutsche in July 2015, Ashley was responsible for business development and investor relations at Good Hill Partners, a $2B structured credit hedge fund. Ashley’s previous experience includes business development and investor relations roles in the alternatives space spanning over the past 13 years including hedge funds, consultants and investment management companies (Cliffwater LLC, Gracie Capital Partners and Stanfield Capital Partners).

Ashley received a BS in Business Management from Skidmore College and graduated from The Kent School.