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Markets have been overshadowed this year by economic and policy uncertainty, causing volatility and pressuring returns in both equities and fixed income. As earnings decline, the economy slows, inflation remains elevated, and the Fed continues its aggressive tightening cycle, the challenging backdrop of the year thus far will only be intensified entering 2023. Join Troy Gayeski and Kirsten Pickens as they explore what these headwinds mean for traditional stock and bond portfolios over the next decade and how to address these challenges by looking beyond traditional assets to generate income, growth, and diversification. |
Kirsten Pickens serves as Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Distribution at FS Investments, where she oversees the firm’s National Accounts, Marketing, Investment Research and Fund Communications functions.
Ms. Pickens was previously a Partner and Head of Distribution at Chiron Investment Management, the global multi-asset firm she helped launch in 2015 and which was acquired by FS Investments in 2020. Prior to joining Chiron, she was Senior Vice President and Head of National Accounts at Ivy Funds, a subsidiary of Waddell & Reed. In 2010, she was named one of Institutional Investor magazine’s “Rising Stars of Mutual Funds.” She began her financial services career as a Retirement Specialist at Vanguard.
Ms. Pickens serves on the Board of the Expect Miracles Foundation, the Board of NICSA and the National Accounts Advisory Board-FUSE. She also sits on the NICSA Distribution and Product Committee and is the Co-Chair of the MMI Emerging Managers Community. In addition, she is a member of the Sales Force Marketing Committee of the Investment Company Institute and a member of the Money Management Institute. She received a BA from Arizona State University, where she majored in Justice Studies with a Pre-Law minor. |
Troy Gayeski, CFA serves as Chief Market Strategist for FS Investments. Mr. Gayeski is responsible for research generation, positioning and conveying the FS Investments suite of alternative investments, and enhancing and expanding the current product suite.
Mr. Gayeski has a wealth of experience in the alternative asset management space. He most recently was Partner, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Senior Portfolio Manager at Skybridge Capital, where he ran discretionary funds of hedge funds and institutional separate accounts, and was responsible for idea generation, due diligence, portfolio construction, development and implementation of the macro framework, and client presentations. Mr. Gayeski has spent over a decade as a contributor on Bloomberg, Fox, Yahoo Finance and CNBC. He also provides frequent market commentary to Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Times and other news outlets. Mr. Gayeski has also been a Senior Portfolio Manager at Citigroup Alternative Investment, as well as a portfolio manager and senior hedge fund analyst at Bank of America and Yankee Advisors.
Mr. Gayeski received his BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT.
Mr. Gayeski lives with his family in Connecticut. |
