Michael Schulman

Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Running Point Capital Advisors

Speaker

As chief investment officer and a founding partner of Running Point Capital Advisors, Michael Ashley Schulman is responsible for Running Point’s global macro outlook, research, investment strategies, PPLI & PPVA management, asset allocation, and impact and social assessments across public and private investments.

Michael has over 20 years of institutional and high-net-worth portfolio management, research, trading, and asset allocation experience across fixed-income, equity, hedge fund, real estate, and private investment classes. He has built quantitative and fundamental systems, modelled collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), and managed a fixed-income arbitrage hedge fund and a multi-strategy fund-of-funds.

Prior to Running Point, Michael was a partner, managing director, senior portfolio manager, and hedge fund manager at Hollencrest Capital Management; vice president, CDO/quantitative specialist at Deutsche Bank; manager at Accenture; director of strategy at Open Ratings (an MIT startup); and a portfolio manager at Pacific Income Advisors.

He has also effectively consulted for the World Federation of Exchanges in Paris, the Colombian Financial Exchange, and several high-tech firms, and has presented at forums and conferences in California, New York, Malaysia, Argentina, and Spain.

Michael has an MBA from MIT Sloan, a CFA designation, and a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley.

Within the community, Michael is a board member of Bridge Funding Global’s Permanent Selection Committee which selects top female emerging managers in venture capital to be matched with investors. Additionally, Michael served on the advisory board of a San Diego based impact fund and is a past president and board member of the CFA Society of Orange County. In his spare time, he enjoys art and adventure travel, including kayaking the Stockholm archipelago and mountain biking in Mongolia to raise funds for underprivileged Mongolian children.