Media Appearances:
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5/21/19 Arnim Holzer On Catalysts For Market's Recent Volatility
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8/13/19 Aaron Dessen & Arnim Holzer Discuss The Outlook For Further Rate Cuts In 2019
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12/16/19 Arnim Holzer Wants His Investors to Sleep Soundly as He Manages Their Portfolio
OUR TEAM
Edward Boll
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Non-Executive Chairman
Prior to forming EAB Investment Group, Mr. Boll was co-founder of DC Trading Partners, LLC in 2005. DC focused on volatility correlation, dispersion, event trading and ETF arbitrage. DC developed proprietary trading methods, analytics and market making algorithms. Mr. Boll spent 3 years with the Goldman Sachs SLK-Hull Derivatives Group. There he was the portfolio risk manager for the internet, hardware, media, mining, telecom and energy sectors. He also managed and developed SLK-Hull's proprietary risk portfolio. Previously, Mr. Boll spent 10 years with TFM Investment Group. In 1995, he created and managed TFM's American Stock Exchange options specialist unit and ETF arbitrage group, as well as serving on TFM's Senior Risk Strategy Committee.
Mr. Boll served on the Technology, Allocation, Specialist, Floor Official and Floor Violations Committees of the American Stock Exchange. Mr. Boll has more than twenty years of experience trading derivatives and has been a member of the American Stock Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, CBOE, Boston Options Exchange and the ISE. Mr. Boll received a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Pennsylvania State University. He holds Series 7, 63 and 66.
Jim Ryan
Managing Partner, President
Jim is the President of EAB Investment Group and serves as one of the portfolio managers for the Easterly Hedged Equity Fund. He also leads the quantitative research efforts supporting EAB’s consulting business, which provides strategic guidance to hedge funds, family offices, and RIAs in developing hedging and alpha-generating strategies. EAB’s partners collectively bring over 100 years of trading experience across various market environments.
With over 38 years of experience in equities, futures, and derivatives trading, Jim brings deep expertise in systematic strategies and risk management. Prior to founding EAB, Jim co-founded RB Derivatives LP in 2006, a firm specializing in mean reversion equity trading and earnings event arbitrage. At RB, he designed proprietary algorithms and automated execution through internally developed trading software.
Jim began his career as a co-founder of Heard Trading, LLC in 1990, a Philadelphia-based proprietary trading firm focused on volatility arbitrage in index and equity options. As a key leader in the firm, he oversaw firm-wide risk and business development, growing the team to 60 employees with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. He also led the firm’s expansion into ETF arbitrage on the AMEX and co-developed an electronic trading platform for pairs, baskets, and single-stock execution, which was later distributed through Fimat.
When Jim is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife Tara and their 4 children playing golf , paddle tennis, padel and squash.
William Visconto
CFO/COO, Member of Investment Committee
Prior to joining EAB Investment Group, Mr. Visconto was head volatility trader at McGowan Investors LLC. His responsibilities were to implement the firm’s strategy in the volatility arbitrage space and deploy the firm's capital to maximize returns. Before joining McGowan, Mr. Visconto was co-founder of Volare Capital, a hedge fund that pursued statistical/ volatility arbitrage strategies in index and single stock options.
Mr. Visconto was the head of portfolio management and trading floor operations for PFTC Advisors and PFTC Trading. At PFTC, he was responsible for managing a team of 4 portfolio managers and 17 floor traders. PFTC Trading was one of the largest liquidity providers in the United States. Mr. Visconto received his B.S. in Marketing from the University of Scranton. He holds Series 7, 63, 65 licenses and passed CFA Level 2.
Arnim S. Holzer
Global Macro StrategistClient Portfolio Manager & Founder of the EAB Correlation Defense Index-CDI™
Arnim has served as Chief Investment Officer, Strategist, Portfolio Manager, and Client Service and Marketing executive at several firms over the past 30 years. Prior to joining EAB Mr. Holzer founded a tail risk consulting firm, ASH Strategy, LLC, where he developed a novel multi asset hedging approach for institutional, high net worth, and family office investors. For 6 years he managed or served as senior strategist on multi asset funds or strategies at Deutsche Asset management and Scudder. While at Deutsche he was the portfolio manager on approximately $3 billion of assets in domestic and offshore multi-asset funds. He also founded and managed a multi asset offshore hedge fund at Israel Discount Bank of New York. He has over 30 years of global macro and multi asset experience.
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Mr. Holzer’s investment philosophy is a unique blend of fundamental, technical and, quantitative disciplines honed over the years of working with many of the top firms and investors in each of these disciplines. His particular macro skill is understanding the relationships of correlation and volatility in the optimization of portfolio construction and return generation. Mr. Holzer received his undergraduate Economics degree from Princeton University and his MBA-Finance from Fordham University. He holds a Series 7 and 65 Registered Representative securities registration.