Tom Pierce

Tom Pierce has more than two decades of experience in the investment industry, encompassing multiple asset classes. He is responsible for managing Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors' Manager Strategies Group, which selects managers and vehicles for traditional and alternative investments. In addition, Tom manages a team of portfolio managers that runs both public and private multi-manager funds, as well as a multi-asset portfolio construction team.

Tom is also a co-portfolio manager and the investment architect of M&T Bank's Unified Managed Account "Portfolio Architect" series of managed accounts, which he has managed since the product's inception in 1997. A member of the firm's Investment Committee, Tom also co-manages M&T Bank's defined benefit pension portfolio and is a consultant for M&T's bank-owned life insurance portfolio.

Tom holds a master's degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.