Nancy Davis
Nancy Davis is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Quadratic Capital Management, an innovative investment advisory firm specializing in convexity strategies. She serves as the Portfolio Manager for The Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Hedge ETF and the Quadratic Deflation ETF; both long, fixed income volatility funds. Davis is a leading expert in the global financial markets and has been the recipient of numerous industry recognitions. Davis is a leading expert in the global financial markets and has been the recipient of numerous industry recognitions. She writes and speaks frequently about markets and investing, and is a frequent guest on financial television. Prior to Quadratic, she was a Senior Executive role at AllianceBernstein, where she also served as a global derivatives strategist across all asset classes and head of derivatives. She previously served as a Portfolio Manager at Highbridge Capital Management, where she managed $500 million of capital in a derivatives-only portfolio. Before that, she spent nearly a decade at Goldman Sachs as Head of Credit, Derivatives, and OTC Trading.
Nancy Davis Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer
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Director of Derivatives
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Head of Credit, OTC and Derivatives Trading for GSPS
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Portfolio Manager
Academic History
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B.A., Economics and Art History
EARLY CAREER
As Director of Derivatives at AllianceBernstein, Davis advised on alpha generation strategies, yield enhancement and hedging.
She also oversaw derivative positions and risk across portfolios across the firm, with expertise on equity derivatives, credit tranches, and interest rate swaps.
She was Portfolio Manager at Highbridge, where she was involved in directional trading expressed via options and other derivative products.
She began her career at Goldman Sachs, where she ran one of the world's largest buy-side volatility portfolios.
At Goldman Sachs, she had investment and trading experience across asset classes including equity options, rate swaptions, credit derivatives, and dividend swaps, among others.
HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
Davis was named by Barron's as one of the "100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance."
Institutional Investors called her a "Rising Star of Hedge Funds."
The Hedge Fund Journal tapped her as one of "Tomorrow's Titans."
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Davis writes and speaks extensively about markets and investing.
She is also a popular speaker for global conferences and industry events.
She has been published in Institutional Investor, Absolute Return and Financial News, and has contributed articles to two books.
She has been published in and profiled by major publications, including The Economist, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.
She is also a frequent guest on financial television including CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg.
She has appeared as a guest on Real Vision and the 2021 Real Vision Festival of Learning.
She has also appeared in MarketWatch, Business Insider, Worth Magazine, Barron's, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet, Real Vision, and more.