Melissa will discuss the major drivers of the change in risk during the quarter and year to date, including style factor returns, changes in country and currency risk, the impact of resurgent energy prices, etc. Her aim will be to provide a comprehensive picture of the risk environment that impacted investor portfolios.
As Senior Director of Applied Research, Melissa Brown generates unique insights into risk trends by consolidating and analyzing the vast amount of data on market and portfolio risk maintained by Axioma. Brown’s perspectives help both clients and prospects to better understand and adapt to the constantly changing risk environment. As author of Axioma Insight: Quarterly Risk Review, Brown reports on the state of risk in publicly traded equity markets around the globe. In addition, Brown produces periodic special reports on a broad range of topics of interest to investors and asset owners. Brown is a frequent speaker on the subject of market risk and is often quoted by the financial media.
Prior to joining Axioma in 2011, Brown was Managing Director and head of the institutional business at Wintrust Capital Management. Before that she spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, most recently as a Partner in the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Group.