Michael A. Gayed CFA is chief investment strategist at Pension Partners, LLC, an investment management firm that uses quantitative strategies to buy and rotate across various ETFs in an effort to generate absolute returns.
As chief investment strategist, Michael helps to structure portfolios to best take advantage of various strategies designed to maximize the amount of time and capital spent in potentially outperforming investments.
Prior to this role, Michael served as a portfolio manager for a large international investment group, trading long/short investment ideas in an effort to capture excess returns.
From 2004 to 2008, Michael was a portfolio strategist at AmeriCap Advisers, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm that managed equity portfolios for large institutional clients. As a member of the investment committee, Michael performed detailed analysis on various stocks and worked closely with the principals of the firm to structure client portfolios.
In 2007, he launched his own long/short hedge fund, using various trading strategies focused on taking advantage of stock market anomalies.
Michael is an active contributor to popular financial websites, including SeekingAlpha.com, MarketWatch.com, Minyanville.com and ETFTrends.com. He has been interviewed on Bloomberg, Fox Business and Wall Street Journal live for his unique approach to interpreting market movements.
His analysis has also been featured by Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, and Barry Ritholtz of the Big Picture. He is the author of the Lead-Lag Report, a weekly summary of various intermarket trends, and the Week in Review, a free e-newsletter sent out every Sunday to people who sign up through his company’s website.
Michael earned his B.S. from New York University and is a CFA Charterholder. Follow him on Twitter and YouTube.