Chris Schindler: The Art of Wealth Creation: Insider Tips from a Veteran Portfolio Manager
Investment Mastery: Risk Parity, Portfolio Construction, and Systematic Investment Strategies for the everyday investor.
In this video, Rodrigo Gordillo, President & Portfolio Manager of ReSolve Asset Management Global does a review of a 2020 interview with veteran portfolio manager and ex Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Managing Director, Chris Schindler, to add important commentary around the discussion on the principles of asset management, exploring risk parity, portfolio construction and systematic investing strategies. He also adds color around how market dynamics have changed since the initial interview and delves deep to help investors understand the evolution of investment strategies within this evolving economic climate and the necessity of a diversified investment approach over conventional equity-centered portfolios. Also, gain insights into the significance of diversification, the effectiveness of model building, and various investment pitfalls. Learn why bond yields, present discount rates, and currency hedging matter, and get a grip on emerging trends in private equity, alternatives, and other asset classes.
This is “ReSolve Riffs” – published on YouTube every Friday afternoon to debate the most relevant investment topics of the day, hosted by Adam Butler, Mike Philbrick, and Rodrigo Gordillo of ReSolve Global* and Richard Laterman of ReSolve Asset Management Inc.
Chris Schindler
Co-founder, CEO and CIO, Castlefield Associates
Chris Schindler is the Co-Founder & CEO of Castlefield Associates, a systematic relative value futures hedge fund that launched in May 2021.
Previously, Chris Schindler was responsible for a variety of roles during his 18 years at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. He started in the Research and Economics team where he worked on the Asset Liability Model before transitioning to the asset management side of the firm as a founding member of the newly formed Tactical Asset Allocation group. Over the next 12 years, he was responsible for researching and managing a wide variety of systematic programs as head of the Global Systematic Investing group. Notable programs included an internal CTA, risk parity portfolio, alternative risk premium program, quantitative cash equities and the enhanced beta strategy, all of which were launched between 2005 and 2007, as well as a large number of pure alpha strategies (models not highly correlated to traditional alternative risk premiums). He and his team were also responsible for evaluating and hiring external managers in the systematic space.
In 2016 Chris joined the newly formed Portfolio Construction Group (PCG) as head of Asset Allocation and Portfolio Management. PCG was responsible for making recommendations to the CIO on Total Fund asset allocation decisions, including risk factor balance, asset class composition and weightings, FX hedging policy, tail mitigation strategies and constrained resource allocation.
Chris Schindler is the 2018 ITU Masters Duathlon World Champion.
*ReSolve Global refers to ReSolve Asset Management SEZC (Cayman) which is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a commodity trading advisor and commodity pool operator. This registration is administered through the National Futures Association (“NFA”). Further, ReSolve Global is a registered person with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.