About

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Thomas Schneeweis is the Co-Founder and the current Director of Research at YES Wealth Management, a Registered Investment Advisory Firm in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area in Minnesota (website: www.yeswealth.com). He was the Michael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance and Founding Director of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He was also the Founding Editor of The Journal of Alternative Investments and the Managing Editor for over fifteen years. He is Co-Founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA: www.caia.org) and the Founder of Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Foundation. He is also the Co-Founder of YES Wealth Management a registered investment advisor firm: . He has published more than 100 articles in the area of investment management and is the co-author/editor of over six books in the area of investment management including New Science of Asset Allocation (John Wiley, 2010) and Postmodern Investment: Facts and Fallacies of Growing Wealth in a Multi-Asset World (John Wiley, 2012). He has been awarded with the CAIA Award for Research in the Area of Alternative Investments (2012). He has been a frequent speaker on financial news programs and contributor to various financial publications. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, M.A. from University of Wisconsin, and a B.A. from St. John’s University. He has more than forty years of experience in asset management including President of a firm (Schneeweis Partners) which specialized in ‘bespoke’ structured finance and Director of Research at Ursa Capital, LLC which managed an approximately $4 billion hedge fund managed account platform. He has been managing partner of a managed futures fund (White Bear Managed Futures Fund) as well as an equity long short hedge fund (White Bear Equity Long-Short Fund) and President of an approximately $1 billion commodity-based investment firm (Alternative Investment Analytics). He was on the Board of Trustees of the AMG Funds (a retail distribution arm of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., a world's leading provider of boutique investment management expertise to institutional and individual investors). A collection of his personal publications, comments and writings can be found at his personal website: www.tschneeweis.com  and information on his academic and personal business publications, comments and writings can be found at his personal business website: www.trs-assoc.com.