Arthur Berd

Co-Founder

Miami, Florida, United States26 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered algorithmic financial planning in WealthTech.
  • Developed influential theories in quantum gravity.
  • Led systematic investment strategies across diverse asset classes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on quantitative finance and systematic investment strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative ResearchPortfolio ManagementSystematic Wealth ManagementFinancial TechnologyQuantitative Investment StrategistRisk ManagementQuantitative FinanceQuantitative Market StrategiesCredit DerivativesQuantitative Credit StrategistInvestment ManagementFinancial Engineering

Other Skills

Portfolio constructionOptimizationSystematic strategiesCommoditiesAlgorithmic financial adviceFinancial planningWealth managementSystematic risk-driven investment strategiesAsset allocationSecurity selectionTactical tradingSystematic macro volatility strategiesTail risk managementTradingLong/short CDS strategies

About

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

Experience

26 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs
Current Experience

Balyasny asset management l.p.

2 roles

Head of Commodities Portfolio Strategy

Promoted

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Quantitative Research

May 2023Mar 2024 · 10 mos

  • Portfolio construction, optimization and systematic strategies in commodities
Portfolio constructionOptimizationSystematic strategiesCommoditiesQuantitative ResearchPortfolio Management

Moneylion

Head of Advice

Dec 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Oversaw the integration of Wealth Technology Inc. after its acquisition by MoneyLion and the introduction of advice-driven client-centric business strategy at the firm.

Wealth technologies inc.

Founder

Jan 2016Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • WealthTech pioneered and implemented personalized algorithmic financial advice bringing the power of algorithmic decision making to the world of financial planning and wealth management.
  • Wealth Technologies Inc. was acquired by MoneyLion in 2020.
Algorithmic financial adviceFinancial planningWealth managementSystematic Wealth ManagementFinancial Technology

General quantitative, llc

Founder and CEO

Nov 2012Apr 2020 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • General Quantitative focused on systematic risk-driven investment strategies for asset allocation, security selection and tactical trading. Launched GQ Active Asset Allocation strategy as a next generation dynamic absolute return alternative to traditional risk parity frameworks, and grew it over 4 years of real money track record, beating a hybrid target defined as "the best of" between traditional risk parity and 60/40 benchmark portfolios.
Systematic risk-driven investment strategiesAsset allocationSecurity selectionTactical tradingQuantitative Investment StrategistPortfolio Management

Capital fund management

Head of Macro Vol Strategies

Jan 2008Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

  • Created, launched and grew systematic macro volatility strategies, trading major equity index, FX, and commodity vol with listed options, as one of four main strategies within a multi-strat fund. Designed and implemented the tail risk management framework for vol strategies and the broader hedge fund.
Systematic macro volatility strategiesTail risk managementTradingRisk ManagementQuantitative Finance

Bluemountain capital management

Head of Quantitative Market Strategies

Jan 2005Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

  • Long/short CDS strategies. Statistical CDX index arbitrage. Empirical credit-vs-equity strategies. Empirical credit correlation and equity dispersion models. LBO and M&A event risk forecasting.
Long/short CDS strategiesStatistical arbitrageEmpirical modelingQuantitative Market StrategiesCredit Derivatives

Lehman brothers

Senior Vice President

Jan 2001Jan 2005 · 4 yrs

  • Quantitative Credit Strategist - single name and exotic credit derivatives strategy, and quantitative credit portfolio strategy for the U.S. investment grade and high yield markets. Created the widely used LB credit term structure model, and survival-based credit and CDS valuation models, and led the creation of LB Quantitative Credit Toolkit and LB CDS Index.
Quantitative credit strategyCredit derivativesPortfolio strategyQuantitative Credit StrategistInvestment Management

Goldman sachs asset management

Vice President

Jan 1996Jan 2001 · 5 yrs

  • Created and led the implementation of the global fixed income portfolio risk management and return attribution model, and regime-dependent emerging markets risk model. Devised a novel business model for new mutual fund family targeting optimization of Morningstar ratings.
Global fixed income portfolio managementRisk management modelsBusiness model optimizationInvestment ManagementFinancial Engineering

Morgan stanley

Associate

Jan 1996Jan 1996 · 0 mo

  • Risk modeling in credit, MBS, and equity collateralized loans
Risk modelingCreditEquity collateralized loans

Education

Stanford University

Ph.D. — Physics

Jan 1992Jan 1996

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics

Ph.D. program — Theoretical Astrophysics

Jan 1990Jan 1992

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)

M.S. — Theoretical Physics

Jan 1984Jan 1990

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