Mr. Yasenchak is responsible for serving as a proxy for the Portfolio Management Team for sales presentations, client reviews and other campaigns by communicating the firm’s investment process and strategies. Mr. Yasenchak works closely with the Client Relations, Consultant Relations and Business Development Teams, facilitating on-site client meetings, attending off-site client meetings as a representative for the Portfolio Management Team and providing in-depth, sophisticated insights into Intech strategies’ performance attribution and trends.
Prior to joining Intech®, Mr. Yasenchak spent almost nine years at Russell Investments where he served as a portfolio manager of $5 billion in U.S. equity defensive funds, quantitative funds, midcap funds, separate accounts, and beta strategies for institutions and individuals. In his various roles at Russell Investments, he was responsible for portfolio analysis, portfolio construction, asset allocation strategy, portfolio risk exposure, risk budgeting, client presentation, manager research, creation of financial models and project management.
Before that, he was director of curriculum and certificate programs at Investment Management Consultants Association in Colorado, where he was responsible for the curriculum of the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation with The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and The Haas School at UC Berkeley; he enhanced the CIMA curriculum by adding new learning objectives and topics of derivatives, risk management and behavioral finance.