News and Recent Events
Acadian Announces Succession Plan At the end of 2011, Gary Bergstrom relinquished his chairmanship role and current CEO Ron Frashure became chairman of Acadian. The role of chief executive officer will be transitioned to Churchill Franklin, who will assume the CEO title on January 1, 2013. October 2011
At the end of 2011, Gary Bergstrom relinquished his chairmanship role and current CEO Ron Frashure became chairman of Acadian. The role of chief executive officer will be transitioned to Churchill Franklin, who will assume the CEO title on January 1, 2013.
Acadian is pleased to announce that two senior research hires joined the firm in September. Wesley S. Chan has joined as Director of Research Operations. In this role, he will help lead Acadian’s bottom-up research effort together with Malcolm Baker, a Harvard Business School finance professor who acts as a consultant to the firm. Wes’s extensive background in quantitative equity analysis includes experience at GSAM and AlphaSimplex. He holds a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. in financial economics from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. September 2011
Matthew S. Rothman also joins Acadian as Director, Top-Down Research. In this role he will manage the group that is responsible for all of the firm’s quantitative, equity-oriented top-down models. Previously, Matthew was a Managing Director and the Chief Global Quantitative Equity Strategist at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, in addition to experience at Sanford C. Bernstein and GSAM. He obtained a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, an M.A. in statistics from Columbia University and A.B. in philosophy from Brown University. September 2011
Recent Acadian Press MentionsSeptember 2011
Acadian has been awarded a mandate by a Canadian pension plan to apply our managed volatility approach to a mix of emerging and developed market equities. This is the first time Acadian has implemented such a combined approach for the managed volatility strategy.
We also recently launched an emerging markets only portfolio in this approach; again, a first for the strategy.May 2011
Strategy
John Chisholm, Acadian's CIO, explains the quantitative approach used by Acadian Asset Management's portfolio managers.
View "Benefits of Acadian's Quantitative Approach to Global Equity Investing".
Research
Acadian team members contributed an article to the January/February issue of the Financial Analysts Journal entitled "Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly".
Visit our recent research document library.
