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Nathan R. Palmer | Vice President | 2015 | 2021 |
Biography | Nathan Palmer is a managing director of Wilshire Associates and heads Wilshire Funds Management’s Portfolio Management Group. Mr. Palmer has more than 20 years of industry experience and is responsible for creating multi-asset class, multi-manager investment solutions for financial intermediary clients. He is the Chair of Wilshire Funds Management’s Investment Committee and Retirement Oversight Committee. Prior to joining Wilshire Associates, Mr. Palmer provided investment advice to endowment, foundation, and family office clients at Convergent Wealth Advisors. Previously, he managed the public market investment portfolios for the endowment at the California Institute of Technology and for the defined benefit and defined contribution retirement assets at Intel Corporation. Mr. Palmer began his career as a securities analyst, where he published equity research on the technology, media, and telecom industries. Mr. Palmer graduated phi beta kappa and cum laude from the University of Washington with a BA in business administration. He holds an MBA with High Distinction from the Stern School of Business, New York University, graduating as an Armando John Garville Memorial Scholar. Mr. Palmer holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is an active member of CFA Institute and CFA Society Los Angeles. | ||
Anthony Wicklund | Portfolio Manager | 2015 | 2021 |
Biography | Tony Wicklund is a managing director of Wilshire Associates and a portfolio manager with Wilshire Funds Management. Mr. Wicklund has over 17 years of industry experience and is a portfolio manager for multi-manager portfolios, including target-risk, target-date, and alternative portfolios for a range of financial intermediary clients. Prior to joining Wilshire Associates in 2013, Mr. Wicklund was the director of risk management at Convergent Wealth Advisors, where he led the firm’s investment risk management and operational due diligence efforts. Additionally, he served as chairman of the firm’s Risk Management Oversight Committee and was a voting member of the Investment Committee. Previously, Mr. Wicklund was a senior analyst at Pacific Seafood where he evaluated acquisition targets, coordinated the integration of acquired companies, and performed internal operational audits and capital expenditure analyses. Mr. Wicklund earned his BS in business administration, with a concentration in finance from the University of Oregon. He also holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, with a concentration in investments and financial markets. Mr. Wicklund holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations, and is a member of CFA Society Los Angeles, CFA Institute, and the CAIA Association. | ||
Lucian Marinescu | - | 2013 | 2015 |
Biography | Lucian Marinescu is a portfolio manager and head of target date strategies for Morningstar’s Investment Management group. Marinescu is responsible for managing multi-asset portfolios for plan providers, plan sponsors, mutual funds, and insurance and money-management companies. Marinescu works with clients to create custom glide paths, select appropriate asset classes, construct strategic asset allocation portfolios, and select managers. Prior to joining the investment advisory group in 2007, Marinescu spent three years as a project manager for Morningstar® Advisor WorkstationSM Enterprise Edition. In this role, he managed the development and implementation of investment software products for institutional clients who serve financial professionals. Marinescu joined Morningstar as a data analyst for the Data Business group in 2002. Marinescu holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration from Monmouth College and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business with concentrations in analytic finance, strategy, economics, and entrepreneurship. Marinescu also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Investment Analysts Society of Chicago. | ||
Scott Wentsel | Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager | 2005 | 2015 |
Biography | Wentsel is a vice president and senior portfolio manager with Ibbotson Associates. Prior to joining Ibbotson in 2005, Wentsel was an executive director with Morgan Stanley. He has over 20 years of investment industry experience. Prior to that, he spent thirteen years with Scudder Kemper Investments with responsibilities in their mutual fund business. Wentsel holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner designations. | ||
Brian Huckstep | Portfolio Manager | 2005 | 2015 |
Biography | Brian Huckstep is a senior portfolio manager and co-head of target risk strategies for Morningstar’s Investment Management group. He focuses on the fund of funds product line. Huckstep is responsible for managing a team that delivers fund of funds programs for institutional and retail clients, which includes asset allocation modeling, portfolio construction, fund classification, and manager due diligence. He assumed the portfolio manager role in 2005. Huckstep has more than 20 years of industry experience. Coming to Morningstar in 2003 as a director of data acquisition, he managed the portfolio collection and quantitative analysis function for five international offices. Prior to Morningstar, Huckstep was a vice president at Northern Trust, where he spent nine years holding several positions, including portfolio analyst, analyst manager, and product manager working with plan sponsors. Before joining Northern Trust, he worked in commercial banking at Bank One. Huckstep holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business with concentrations in finance, strategy, and entrepreneurship. Huckstep also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the Investment Analysts Society of Chicago. | ||
Chris Armstrong | Portfolio Manager | 2011 | 2013 |
Biography | Chris Armstrong is a portfolio manager of Ibbotson Associates Advisors, LLC. | ||
John Thompson | Portfolio Manager | 2011 | 2012 |
Biography | Mr.Thompson joined Ibbotson in 2000. Mr. Thompson manages asset allocation portfolios for banks, mutual fund,insurance and money management companies. | ||
Peng Chen | Managing Director | 2005 | 2012 |
Biography | Chen is managing director and chief investment officer at Ibbotson. He joined Ibbotson in 1997. Chen holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. | ||
Jeremy Stempien | Portfolio Manager | 2008 | 2011 |
Biography | Jeremy Stempien, MBA, is a Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Strategist for QMA, working with the Dynamic Asset Allocation team. His responsibilities include the management of the Prudential Day One Funds and managing client relationships. Prior to joining QMA, Jeremy was a Director of Investments at Morningstar Investment Management where he was responsible for developing asset allocation programs for plan providers, plan sponsors, and money management companies. He worked with clients in creating and managing custom target date glide paths, selecting appropriate asset classes, and constructing model portfolios. Previously, he worked at Hewitt Associates where he was a Defined Contribution Manager. Jeremy earned a BA in Finance from Saint Louis University and an MBA in Investments from University of Notre Dame. | ||
J.C. Waller | Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager | 2007 | 2009 |
Biography | J.C. Waller serves as Fund Architect's Co-CIO. In that position, he is responsible for leading the investment team and executing the firm's investment strategies. Mr. Waller brings extensive investment management and asset allocation experience to his role. Prior to joining Fund Architects, he served as Senior Director of the Plan Advisory esrvices for Advised Assets Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Great West Life & Annuity in Denver. There he was responsible for the Group's manager due diligence, fund selection, and porfolio monitoring. He previously served in a similar capacity at Old Mutual Asset Management where he was Senior Director, Investments. Mr. Waller also worked at ICON Advisers, Inc. as Vice President of Investments. In that role he was responsible for managing multiple institutional/private portfolios totaling approximately $2.2 billion in assets. In addition to numerous apperances on CNBC and CNNfn, Mr. Waller has been featured in several leading investment publications, including Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, Business Week, and Bloomberg. Prior to his investment career, Mr. Waller was a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger serving as a Chinese-Mandarin linguist. Mr. Waller earned his Masters in Finance and an International MBA from the University of Denver. |
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