Biography
Michae Hunstad, PhD, is chief investment officer of global equities for Northern Trust Asset Management. He is a member of the Asset Management Executive Group and has oversight of all equity portfolio management, research and trading activities including quantitative, index and tax-advantaged strategies. Additionally, Hunstad assists with the development of investment vision, strategy, portfolio construction, and risk management framework for the firm’s broad investment platform. Previously, he was head of Quantitative Strategies where he was responsible for leading Northern Trust Asset Management’s quantitative research, portfolio management, and product development programs. Before joining Northern Trust, he was head of research at Breakwater Capital, an algorithmic trading firm and hedge fund. Prior to that role, Hunstad was head of quantitative asset allocation at Allstate Investments, LLC, and a quantitative analyst with a long-short equity hedge fund. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in mathematics, an MBA in finance, an M.A. in econometrics, and a bachelor's degree in economics.
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