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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. 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 the Institute for Global Asset and Risk Management (INGARM: www.ingarm.org). 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). He is also President of Quantitative Investment Technologies, LLC (www.quantinvesttech.com) an investment management firm specializing in downside risk management and investment strategy replication programs. 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. A reference to his corporate business publications, comments and writings can be found at his corporate website: www.quantinvesttech.com.