Full Name
Bill DeRoche
Job Title
Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager
Company
AGFiQ Asset Management
Speaker Bio
Bill is Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at FFCM, LLC (FFCM).
Bill is one of the co-founders of FFCM. Founded in 2009, FFCM is a Boston-based investor advisory firm founded with a vision to provide investors efficient and inexpensive exposure to investment factors through a family of ETFs and investment strategies otherwise limited to institutional investors.
Before founding FFCM, Bill was a Vice President at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and was the head of the U.S. Enhanced Equities team. His focus was on managing long only and 130/30 U.S. strategies, as well as providing research on SSgA’s stock-ranking models and portfolio construction techniques. Prior to joining SSgA in 2003, Bill was a quantitative analyst and portfolio manager at Putnam Investments. Bill has been working in the investment management field since 1995. Prior to 1995, Bill was a Naval Aviator flying the Grumman A-6 Intruder as a member of Attack Squadron Eighty-Five aboard the USS America(CV-66).
Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA degree from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is a CFA charterholder and holds FINRA licenses 7, 63 and 24.
1AGFiQ Asset Management (AGFiQ) is a collaboration of investment professionals from Highstreet Asset Management Inc. (HSAM), a Canadian registered portfolio manager, and of FFCM, LLC (FFCM), a U.S. registered adviser. This collaboration makes up the quantitative investment team.
Bill is one of the co-founders of FFCM. Founded in 2009, FFCM is a Boston-based investor advisory firm founded with a vision to provide investors efficient and inexpensive exposure to investment factors through a family of ETFs and investment strategies otherwise limited to institutional investors.
Before founding FFCM, Bill was a Vice President at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and was the head of the U.S. Enhanced Equities team. His focus was on managing long only and 130/30 U.S. strategies, as well as providing research on SSgA’s stock-ranking models and portfolio construction techniques. Prior to joining SSgA in 2003, Bill was a quantitative analyst and portfolio manager at Putnam Investments. Bill has been working in the investment management field since 1995. Prior to 1995, Bill was a Naval Aviator flying the Grumman A-6 Intruder as a member of Attack Squadron Eighty-Five aboard the USS America(CV-66).
Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA degree from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is a CFA charterholder and holds FINRA licenses 7, 63 and 24.
1AGFiQ Asset Management (AGFiQ) is a collaboration of investment professionals from Highstreet Asset Management Inc. (HSAM), a Canadian registered portfolio manager, and of FFCM, LLC (FFCM), a U.S. registered adviser. This collaboration makes up the quantitative investment team.
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