Arthur Berd — Co-Founder
I am a former physicist who continues to apply scientific and systematic methods across business disciplines including quantitative finance, investment management, wealth management and financial technology. In quant finance, I have worked across all asset classes, from equity and fixed income, to credit, volatility and commodities portfolio and risk management. In investment management, my focus has been on forecasting risk conditions and co-movements between markets and creating robust systematic investment strategies and portfolio allocation methodologies that navigate risk ebbs and flows. In fintech space, I focused on bringing the same systematic rigor to wealth management industry. WealthTech, a startup I cofounded and led, pioneered the algorithmic approach to financial planning, envisioning the transformation of the advisory industry in the same manner as algorithmic trading has transformed the investment process. I am actively involved in public research in quantitative finance, both publishing and presenting my own research and editing books and peer reviewed publications. I am the founding Editor-in-Chief (now emeritus) of the Journal of Investment Strategies, and a member of Editorial Advisory Council of http://arxiv.org, the world's largest global public research repository, and the co-founder and coordinator of its quant finance section. Before coming to Wall Street 25 years ago, I was a physicist working on quantum gravity and theory of early universe. Together with my PhD advisor Andrei Linde, one of the creators of modern cosmology, we have developed the theory of stationary inflationary universe, which continues to have important influence on modern fundamental theories, and whose very large scale structure naturally leads to emergence of the multiverse, and (possibly) even its locally testable predictions. In the non-profit world, I focus on education. I am a co-founder of the Ayb Educational Foundation, a leading force for the modernization of school system in Armenia. Specialties: Portfolio Manager, Quantitative Investment Strategist, Quantitative Credit Strategist, Derivatives Strategist, Systematic Wealth Management, Systematic Financial Planning
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on quantitative finance and systematic investment strategies.
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Experience: 26 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Quantitative Research
- Portfolio Management
- Systematic Wealth Management
- Financial Technology
- Quantitative Investment Strategist
- Risk Management
- Quantitative Finance
- Quantitative Market Strategies
- Credit Derivatives
- Quantitative Credit Strategist
- Investment Management
- Financial Engineering
Career Highlights
- Pioneered algorithmic financial planning in WealthTech.
- Developed influential theories in quantum gravity.
- Led systematic investment strategies across diverse asset classes.
Work Experience
Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Head of Commodities Portfolio Strategy (2 yrs 2 mos)
Quantitative Research (10 mos)
MoneyLion
Head of Advice (1 yr 2 mos)
Wealth Technologies Inc.
Founder (4 yrs 11 mos)
General Quantitative, LLC
Founder and CEO (7 yrs 5 mos)
Capital Fund Management
Head of Macro Vol Strategies (3 yrs)
BlueMountain Capital Management
Head of Quantitative Market Strategies (2 yrs)
Lehman Brothers
Senior Vice President (4 yrs)
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Vice President (5 yrs)
Morgan Stanley
Associate (0 mo)
Education
Ph.D. at Stanford University
Ph.D. program at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
M.S. at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)