As Chief Investment Officer of Avantis Investors, Eduardo is responsible for directing the research, design and implementation of our investment strategies, providing oversight of the investment team and the firm's marketing initiatives, and interacting with clients.
Prior to Avantis Investors' establishment in 2019, Eduardo was Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Director at Dimensional Fund Advisors LP ("DFA") until 2017. While at DFA, Eduardo provided oversight across the investment, client service, marketing, and operational functions of DFA and oversaw their day to day operations, directed the engineering and execution of investment portfolios and was involved in the design, development and delivery of research that informed the firm's investment approach as well as its application through portfolio management and trading.
Dr. Repetto earned a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology, an MSc degree in Engineering from Brown University, and a Diploma de Honor in Civil Engineering from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Eduardo is a Trustee of the California Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of the William F. Ballhaus Prize from the California Institute of Technology for outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Aeronautics and the Ernest E. Sechler Memorial Award for his teaching and research efforts.
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Understanding of asset pricing has evolved since the 1950's. Implications include the birth and growing dominance of indexes and factor strategies. But have factors been overdone? Eduardo reviews the literature on factors. He recommends a return to concepts underlying factors, providing a cohesive framework for building equity portfolios.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand evolution of the study of asset pricing
- Identify the background and rationale for index and factor strategies
- Examine how valuation theory informs equity portfolio construction
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