Damon Wu

Portfolio Manager
17 years industry experience

Biography

Damon is a portfolio manager for the Portfolio Solutions Group at MSIM, heading the team's Quantitative Research. Damon focuses on asset allocation, portfolio optimization and rebalancing and has helped develop and refine the proprietary quant models utilized by the team. He has 17 years of industry experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Damon was an associate at Merrill Lynch, responsible for portfolio construction and quantitative research in the hedge fund development and management team. Damon received a B.S. in Engineering from National Taiwan University and an M.B.A. and M.S. joint degree from Case Western Reserve University. He also holds an M.S. in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

Damon is a member of the
Portfolio Solutions Group

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Strategies

Strategy Name	Description
Global Balanced Income Strategy	Invests across global asset classes, aiming to manage total portfolio risk while enhancing returns from tactical positioning, seeking to deliver attractive returns, a stable income and a measure of downside protection in volatile markets.
Global Balanced Risk Control Strategy: Fixed Weight Benchmark	Invests across global asset classes, aiming to manage tracking error around a fixed-weight benchmark while enhancing returns from tactical positioning and seeking excess returns, with a measure of downside protection in volatile markets.
Global Balanced Risk Control Strategy: Total Portfolio Risk Control	Invests across global asset classes, aiming to manage total portfolio risk while enhancing returns from tactical positioning and seeking to deliver attractive returns and downside protection in volatile markets. The Strategy can be customised to client-specified risk levels, with a range of instruments for implementation of asset class exposures including direct securities, active funds and ETFs.
Portfolio Solutions - Multi-Alternative Strategies	Offers discretionary multi-alternative investment solutions tailored to the specific needs and requirements of each client.
Outsourced CIO Programs	Offers comprehensive, full-service discretionary investment management programs tailored to the specific needs and requirements of each client.

Global Balanced Income Strategy

Invests across global asset classes, aiming to manage total portfolio risk while enhancing returns from tactical positioning, seeking to deliver attractive returns, a stable income and a measure of downside protection in volatile markets.

Global Balanced Risk Control Strategy: Fixed Weight Benchmark

Invests across global asset classes, aiming to manage tracking error around a fixed-weight benchmark while enhancing returns from tactical positioning and seeking excess returns, with a measure of downside protection in volatile markets.

Global Balanced Risk Control Strategy: Total Portfolio Risk Control

Invests across global asset classes, aiming to manage total portfolio risk while enhancing returns from tactical positioning and seeking to deliver attractive returns and downside protection in volatile markets. The Strategy can be customised to client-specified risk levels, with a range of instruments for implementation of asset class exposures including direct securities, active funds and ETFs.

Portfolio Solutions - Multi-Alternative Strategies

Offers discretionary multi-alternative investment solutions tailored to the specific needs and requirements of each client.

Outsourced CIO Programs

Offers comprehensive, full-service discretionary investment management programs tailored to the specific needs and requirements of each client.