Julio Cacho

Julio is Co-Chief Investment Officer and has more than 20 years of combined professional and academic experience in financial statistical research, optimal investment selection, and investment risk management. Previously, Julio was a director of risk and performance at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private multi-billion dollar family office in New York City. At Ziff, Julio developed investment and hedging strategies as a quantitative researcher, and implemented risk management strategies. Julio holds a masters of finance and doctor of philosophy (P.h.D.) in finance and economics from Princeton University. He received a B.SC. in Actuarial Science and an M.A. in economics with highest honors from ITAM University, in Mexico City. Julio is currently a faculty member at Rice University and has taught at Princeton University, ITAM, and the Swiss Finance Institute. Julio has also been a seminar speaker at top universities and financial institutions. Julio won the 2005 Citi-Banamex research in economics prize and has published articles about optimal portfolio selection in peer-reviewed academic journals.