Wyck J. Brown, CFA's Linkedin Analytics

Specialties: New investment fund development, strategy, and launch: Alternatives (hedge funds & other LP's), and liquid alternatives (40-Act funds) including a current focus on Listed Private Equity. Active long/short investment fund management, fixed income trading, and investment strategies including explicit and implicit options valuation as well as structured finance deal structuring. Entrepreneurial start-ups and small company strategy. Applications of IT and strategic database technology and analytics for the optimization of investment portfolios and/or corporate strategy. Experience: 19 years of trading and portfolio management experience in the alternative fixed income capital markets including successfully running a $500MM long/short bond structured finance hedge fund for 8 years. A deep understanding of capital markets, securities valuation, portfolio strategy, embedded and explicit options valuation and investment firm management. Currently, five years product and investment strategy development & oversight with a 40-Act Adviser. Products include open end mutual funds, CEF's, and ETF's in a wide array of liquid alternative asset classes with special focus on the listed private equity space. Experience with five start-ups, including providing angel capital. Currently focused on FinTech and consumer tech. 10 years of information systems development and software start-up management in investment analytic and capital market-related database development and solutions software.