CFA Society of Columbus July 28, 2020 Zoom Event 

Please join CFA Columbus in welcoming Mr. Andrew Ang, PhD, Managing Director, leads BlackRock's efforts in factor investing and is Head of the Factor-Based Strategies Group as our guest speaker.

“Trends in Factor Investing: Industry growth and positioning for the future"

Author of over 100 publications, Dr. Ang's research focuses on identifying and harvesting factor risk premiums within and across asset classes. He has published widely on equities, fixed income, optimal asset allocation, and alternative assets, and has written foundational papers in the minimum volatility factor, macro-finance fixed income, and factor allocation. Before joining BlackRock in 2015, Dr. Ang was Chair of the Finance and Economics Division and the Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His book, "Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing" is a comprehensive guide showing how factor risk premiums can be harvested in portfolio design and incorporated in all aspects of investment management. As a professor, Dr. Ang worked with several large institutional managers as an advisor and consultant.

The Factor-Based Strategies Group manages macro and style factor multi-asset funds. Included in its mandates are factor rotation strategies and the design of proprietary factor index and ETF offerings. The group optimizes factors to help meet investment outcomes such as total portfolio solutions, and develops factor analytics tools leveraging BlackRock's Aladdin platform.

Dr. Ang earned a BEc(Hons) degree in actuarial studies from Macquarie University, and a PhD in finance and MS in statistics from Stanford University.

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RSVP's due by COB, Monday, July 27, 2020!