Lawrence F. Pohlman

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

Larry has a distinguished career covering 25 years of experience in equity, fixed income, and asset allocation. He is a successful player/coach recruiting, managing, and mentoring teams of researchers while personally pursuing state-of-the-art research. He is a skilled presenter of complex quantitative and analytical aspects of investment strategies to clients at various levels of expertise. He regularly speaks at professional conferences and is widely published in prominent journals.

Larry was the Chief Investment Officer at BNP Paribas Quantitative Strategies. His team managed $3 billion in global quantitative equities and minimum volatility strategies. Before BNP, Larry was responsible for the Quantitative Investment Group at Wellington Management. He and his team developed Wellington Management’s quantitative models for a wide range of styles including US and International securities. His team also managed $26 billion in pure quantitative portfolios. Before joining Wellington, Larry was the Director of Research at PanAgora Asset Management where he was responsible for overseeing all research, development, and enhancements to PanAgora's quantitative models covering $12 billion. He also co-chaired PanAgora’s Investment Committee. Before joining PanAgora, Larry was a Senior Vice President and the Director of Fixed Income Research at Independence Investment Associates. Previous to that, he was a Vice President at Blackrock Financial Management, where he worked in their portfolio engineering group and was an Associate in Mortgage Securities Research at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Larry holds his Ph.D. in Finance, Masters of Philosophy in Finance, MBA in Finance and Management Science, MS in Operations Research, and BS in Nuclear Engineering, all from Columbia University. He is a member of the American Finance Association, Boston Security Analysts Society, Econometric Society, the Chicago Quantitative Alliance, and MENSA.