Yigal D. Jhirad, Senior Vice President, is a Portfolio Manager and Director of Quantitative and Derivatives Strategies. Mr. Jhirad heads the firm’s Investment Risk Committee. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Jhirad was an executive director in the institutional equities division of Morgan ...more

Yigal D. Jhirad, Senior Vice President, is a Portfolio Manager and Director of Quantitative and Derivatives Strategies. Mr. Jhirad heads the firm’s Investment Risk Committee. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Jhirad was an executive director in the institutional equities division of Morgan Stanley, where he headed the company’s quantitative strategies effort. He was responsible for developing, implementing, and marketing quantitative and derivatives risk managed products to a broad array of institutional clients. Specialty Areas: - Investment Management - Quantitative and Derivatives signal and strategy development. Options Overlay Strategies. - Systematic Commodities - Development of Risk Managed and Risk Parity based Process Driven Strategies - Risk Management & Portfolio Advisory - Equity, Fixed Income, Commodities,Currencies, Derivatives - Speaker in industry conferences and media events Technical Expertise: Portfolio Construction and Optimization, Cointegration, Multi-Factor and Volatility modeling, Applied Mathematics, Deep Learning applied to Investment and Risk Managementless