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Gene Balas, CFA® is an Investment Strategist in SEIA’s Investment Research department. In that role, he helps manage multi-asset portfolios, including performing research on individual stocks and alternative investments. He has over thirty years of experience as an investment strategist, portfolio manager, due diligence analyst, and author in the media. He has created portfolios for several members of the Forbes’ “400 Richest Americans” list, as well as delivered a double-digit annualized performance advantage managing modeled multi-asset investment strategies. He most recently was Vice President, Investment Oversight at Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management, where he oversaw its $28 billion platform to identify unintended risks to clients or to the firm. He began his career in 1989 at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York as a research analyst. He has also written over one thousand columns published on TheStreet and on Seeking Alpha. He earned an MBA in Finance from Columbia University in 2003 and a BBA in Finance from the University of Houston, where he attended on a full National Merit Scholarship. Gene is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is a member of the CFA Society of Dallas. He maintains a Series 65 Registered Investment Advisor license.
Gene Balas, CFA® is an Investment Strategist in SEIA’s Investment Research department. In that role, he helps manage multi-asset portfolios, including performing research on individual stocks and alternative investments.
He has over thirty years of experience as an investment strategist, portfolio manager, due diligence analyst, and author in the media. He has created portfolios for several members of the Forbes’ “400 Richest Americans” list, as well as delivered a double-digit annualized performance advantage managing modeled multi-asset investment strategies.
He most recently was Vice President, Investment Oversight at Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management, where he oversaw its $28 billion platform to identify unintended risks to clients or to the firm.
He began his career in 1989 at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York as a research analyst. He has also written over one thousand columns published on TheStreet and on Seeking Alpha.
He earned an MBA in Finance from Columbia University in 2003 and a BBA in Finance from the University of Houston, where he attended on a full National Merit Scholarship. Gene is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is a member of the CFA Society of Dallas. He maintains a Series 65 Registered Investment Advisor license.