Navigating a New Risk Paradigm – Northern Trust Asset Management – 6.6.23

Overview:

Title: Navigating a New Risk Paradigm
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Summary:

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This volatile environment, where markets seem to change risk posture on a dime, is here to stay and wreaking havoc on investor portfolios. This webcast will provide practical insights into how investors can view, analyze and deploy risk across all asset classes in order to achieve their objectives in this new market paradigm.

Key topics:

  • Identifying the key drivers of the persistent and extreme bouts of market volatility
  • Revealing common sources of unintended risks and how to mitigate them
  • Uncovering critical portfolio considerations for this new age of volatility

Speaker:

Michael Hunstad, Ph.D. Michael Hunstad, Ph.D. Chief Investment Officer – Global Equities Northern Trust Asset Management

Michael Hunstad is the chief investment officer for global equities at Northern Trust Asset Management. He serves on the asset management executive group, and leads all equity portfolio management and research for quantitative, index and tax-advantaged strategies.

Previously, Michael was director of quantitative research where he was responsible for leading Northern Trust Asset Management’s factor-based research and product development programs.

Prior to joining Northern Trust, he was head of research at Breakwater Capital, an algorithmic trading firm and hedge fund. Previously, he was head of quantitative asset allocation at Allstate Investments, LLC and a quantitative analyst with a long-short equity hedge fund. He also served as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Michael holds a Ph.D. in mathematics, an MBA in finance, an M.A. in econometrics and a bachelor’s degree in economics. He has published more than 80 articles and papers in professional and academic journals including Pensions & Investments, European Pensions, the Journal of Index Investing, the Alternative Investment Analyst Review, the Journal of Financial and Strategic Decisions and the Journal of Corporate Treasury Management. Michael has also spoken at more than 200 conferences across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia/New Zealand.