Iraj Kani

Iraj is involved in the development of new products and modeling of risk potential in various strategies. He is a member of the Fixed Income Investment Committee and the Tactical Asset Allocation Committee. He also serves as portfolio manager for the STRONG Nations Currency Fund.

Prior to its acquisition by Fiera Capital, Iraj was a Principal, Quantitative Strategist and member of the Investment Committee at Samson Capital Advisors LLC. Samson was a privately-owned investment management firm that was founded in 2004 by senior investment professionals from OFFITBANK, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan. Samson managed over $7 billion in assets in customized fixed income for affluent families and their foundations, endowments and corporations. At Fiera Capital, Iraj will continue to serve as a co-portfolio manager for the STRONG Nations Currency fund, and be involved in the development of new products by the modelling of risk potential in various strategies.

Previously, Iraj was the Vice President of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs from 1991 to 1998, where he was the senior modeler for the equity derivatives division. In this role, Iraj worked with Emanuel Derman in the development of analytics and risk management tools that informed a variety of Goldman’s equity trading processes. Iraj advised market makers and proprietary traders on Goldman’s equity trading desk on options pricing, hedging strategies, and product development. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was the member of quantitative modeling in the Fixed Income Derivatives Trading group at Bankers Trust. Prior to that, he was a research fellow at Harvard University.