Ben is a senior portfolio Manager on the Absolute Return Fixed Income Group at FFTW. His responsibilities include the identification of inefficiencies in fixed income markets and building quantitative alpha strategies for inclusion in client portfolios. Ben joined FFTW in 2011 and is based in New York.

Prior to joining FFTW, Ben was a consultant, doing research and development for investment funds and trading companies. Before that, Ben was a portfolio manager at IDB Bank, where he developed and managed a global macro quantitative fund. Prior to that, he was with Aspect Capital as the research manager for financial engineering. Ben started his career at Deutsche Bank as a member of the quantitative research and portfolio construction team.

Why absolute return makes sense now The current interest rate environment presents an inflection point for investors: anticipating that interest rates will move higher but at the same time cognisant ...