Deborah Weir

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Alternative Assets

CURRENT POSITION

Deborah is a senior executive with over 30 years of securities industry experience. She entered finance as a fixed-income trader and institutional portfolio manager with a predecessor firm of DWS Investments - Scudder, Stevens & Clark. Her clients included the Mayo Clinic, United Technologies and Rockwell International. Her work for institutions includes the development of portfolio immunization, duration analysis and asset-backed security management. She invested in options and futures for ultra-high net worth individuals.

PAST POSITIONS

She has specialized in alternative assets since 1985. She has facilitated the growth of some of the most successful commodities pools and funds of hedge funds with introductions to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, corporations and public pension funds.

EDUCATION

• B.S. at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
• MBA with a concentration in finance at New York University

PUBLICATIONS

Author, Timing the Markets, Wiley, 2005