Biography
Clare Flynn Levy is CEO and founder of Essentia Analytics, a leading provider of behavioral analytics services to professional investors and allocators of capital. Essentia’s proprietary manager assessment methodology, the Behavioral AlphaⓇ Benchmark, employs a rigorous decision attribution framework to help managers and allocators identify and interpret demonstrated investment skills in equity portfolio managers. Prior to founding Essentia, Flynn Levy spent 10 years as a fund manager, in both active equity, running over $1 billion of pension funds for Deutsche Asset Management, and hedge, as founder and CIO of Avocet Capital Management, a specialist tech fund manager.
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