Thomas Schneeweis 
 

Thomas Schneeweis Ph.D.  is the Michael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets at the Isenberg School of Management , University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the Founding Editor of The Journal of Alternative Investment and is co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association and the Institute for Global Asset and Risk Management. He has published more than 100 articles in the area of investment and asset management.  He has presented at major conferences globally, has been quoted in major financial press, and spoken on many financial news programs. He has been credited in part for the creation of asset allocation breakthroughs such as portable alpha and the development of hedge fund replication concepts. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa ,  M.A. from University of Wisconsin, and a B.A. from St. John's University.

Professionally, he has more than thirty years experience in investment management.. He was a associated with the creation and development of the Zurich and Dow Jones Investible Hedge fund Indices, the LMEX and Bache Commodity Indices and has acted as Director of Research at Ursa Capital one of the first managed account based hedge fund platforms. He helped found Alternative Investment Analytics (a commodity investment firm which help created the Bache Commodity Index) and White Bear Partners (a hedge fund/managed futures trading firm). He is currently a principal at Scapital Management, LLC an investment management firm specializing in asset allocation and investment strategy replication programs.