Josh Emanuel

Chief Investment Officer at Wilshire

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Josh Emanuel is Wilshire’s Chief Investment Officer. In this role, Mr. Emanuel leads the firm’s investment activities, including asset allocation, investment strategy, manager research, portfolio management and quantitative alpha research. He chairs the Wilshire Investment Committee.

Mr. Emanuel re-joined Wilshire in 2015 and has 20 years of industry experience. From 2010 to 2015, he served as Chief Investment Officer of The Elements Financial Group, LLC (TEG), where he developed and managed a variety of outcome-oriented investment strategies and exchange-traded funds. Prior to his tenure at TEG, Mr. Emanuel served in several roles at Wilshire from 2004-2010, including head of manager research, head of strategy for Wilshire funds management, and co-chairman of the Wilshire Funds Management Investment Committee. Before 2004, he was responsible for international manager research for Jeffrey Slocum & Associates, Inc.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Pittsburgh and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.