Editorial Board
The following individuals have graciously volunteered their time and expertise to serve on the Editorial Board of AllAboutAlpha.com. In this role, they help chart the direction of the content and services offered by the website and also contribute to these pages on a regular basis. They are listed in alphabetical order.
Dr. Ranjan Bhaduri, CAIA; Managing Director and Head of Research, AlphaMetrix Alternative Investment Advisors (Chicago)Prior to his current position, Ranjan was a Vice President and on an Investment Committee at Morgan Stanley where he conducted due diligence and helped design customized portfolios of Alternatives. Earlier, he was at a Canadian Fund of Funds, and at a multi-billion dollar capital management firm where he was involved in all aspects of its fund of hedge funds and structured finance business. He has also worked with two major Canadian investment banks in the Financial Strategy Consulting Group and in Global Risk Management & Control, respectively.
Dr. Bhaduri has held advisory roles at the East-West Center, a leading think tank on the Asia-Pacific region, and at ClassMouse, an early stage software company. He has taught finance and mathematics at several universities and lectured on Derivatives for the Montreal Exchange.
Dr. Bhaduri has authored articles on, and been invited to speak worldwide regarding advanced portfolio and risk management techniques, and hedge fund issues. He holds both the CFA and CAIA charters.
He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Toronto CFA Society, and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).
Brian Dawson, CAIA; Global Business Manager for Hedge Funds, Thomson Reuters (New York)Brian has been actively engaged in the global financial services industry for over twenty years – both as a capital markets practitioner and management consultant.
Prior to joining TR, he worked as an internal consultant to a growing hedge fund and served as the leading subject matter expert on hedge funds for both Accenture and PA Consulting. Brian began his career at Credit Suisse were he managed teams in treasury, operations and special project.
Brian holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and BSc. Economics from University College Dublin. He is an active member of the Columbia Business School Alumni Club in New York were he is the co-chair of the Philanthropy Committee.
Steve Deutsch, CAIA; Director, Investment Trusts and Pensions, Endowments, and Foundations’ Database, Morningstar, Inc. (Chicago)
Steve works in Morningstar’s institutional data division and is the director of the pensions, endowments, and foundations’ database and the separate account and collective trust databases.
Based in Chicago, Steve oversees these databases and their associated data teams. He plans, defines, and delivers the data points and analytic features associated with each in the firm’s Internet applications. He also oversees original research into these investment vehicles.
Steve often represents Morningstar externally and regularly gives panel and conference addresses. He is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Fundfire, Pensions & Investments, and Barron’s amongst other print and online publications.
Prior to joining Morningstar, Steve worked at ABN Amro Bank, Manufacturers and Traders (M&T) Bank, and Imasco Limited.
Steve holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations, an M.A. in Business Administration, a certificate in international management, and a B.A. in political science and economics.
Konstantin Danilov, CAIA; Investment Analyst (Boston)Konstantin has been an active CAIA member since April 2007, and is Vice President of the CAIA Boston Chapter. As part of the Networking and Outreach Committee of the CAIA Boston chapter, Konstantin acts as the lead for efforts related to Boston CAIA website development and content. He has also participated in the CAIA Curriculum Development Initiative (CDI) working group.
Konstantin is an Investment Analyst for the Defined Benefit Pension Plan for a mid-sized financial services company. He is a member of a two-person team responsible for the investment research and due-diligence efforts for the company’s two-billion dollar pension portfolio. Konstantin’s responsibilities range from asset allocation to individual investment selection with the ultimate goal of maximizing the return of the plan’s portfolio, which includes domestic and international equity and fixed income, as well as various alternative investments.
Previously, Konstantin worked for Bank of America’s Global Wealth and Investment Management Division. He was responsible for the identification, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and ongoing due-diligence efforts surrounding equity investment strategies approved for the various channels of the bank.
In addition to his activities with CAIA, Konstantin is also a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society (BSAS), a Level III CFA candidate, and holds various FINRA Licenses: Series 7,6,63,55.
Konstantin graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with a B.A. in Economics. Last year, he joined the Finance and Investments Committee for the Alumni Association of his alma mater.
Andrew Saunders, CAIA; Managing Director, Hedge Connection (New York)Andrew is the Director of Marketing and Capital Introduction at EFX Prime Services. EFX Prime Services offers prime brokerage services, access to multiple clearing relationships, comprehensive trading solutions and capital introduction to single and multi-primed funds. In addition, Andrew advises to EFX Capital which directs external allocations to hedge funds through managed accounts. EFX Prime Services and EFX Capital are divisions of First New York Securities, a premier trading firm headquartered in New York City. First New York deploys global strategies across all asset classes.
Prior to EFX Prime Services, Andrew was a managing director at Hedge Connection. His leadership responsibilities included Andrew’s leadership responsibilities included business development, client relations, investor liaison, media relations and strategic partnerships. His first position on Wall Street was with Taylor Rafferty, a boutique cross-border investor relations firm. During his 7-year tenure, Andrew assisted senior management implement all aspects of their investor relations programs including corporate strategy development, IPO/Secondary roadshows, media relations and led 12 ADR listings and IPOs on the NYSE and NASDAQ.
A graduate of Haverford College in 1993 with a B.A. in economics. Andrew holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) and is a member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). Prior to entering the financial services industry, Andrew spent four years in Malaysia and Indonesia as a teacher and entrepreneur.
Andrew is married with two children and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Dr. Bob Swarup, CAIA; Partner, Pension Corporation (London)
Bob advises on allocations to alternative strategies, asset-liability and risk management, and portfolio construction at Pension Corporation, a UK-based pension buyout firm that offers a variety of bespoke de-risking solutions for pension funds based around the holistic management of their assets and liabilities, ranging from insurance buyouts of all liabilities to the direct acquisition of corporate sponsors to insuring specific risks such as longevity. He was previously at Altedge Capital, a AAA-rated hedge fund of funds based in London, and has a PhD in Cosmology from Imperial College London.
Bob has written extensively for a range of media and academic publications on diverse topics including hedge funds, private equity, investment strategies, pensions and cosmology. He is currently also working with the London School of Economics on Pensions Tomorrow, a research initiative looking into the economic, socio-political and financial aspects of pensions and longevity, and with Bloomsbury Publishing on producing a book of essays by leading thinkers on global finance.
