Ken Frier | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Bio

Ken Frier, CFA, has over 30 years of experience as an institutional investor, having been Chief Investment Officer of The Walt Disney Company, Hewlett-Packard Company, Stanford Management Company and the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust. Ken graduated with honors in Mathematical Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.

Current position (1)

Chief Investment Officer

Atlas Capital Advisors

Achievements (1)

Investment Results

The Hewlett-Packard defined benefit plan had the best performance of any US fund during my tenure, which included the Global Financial Crisis.

Degrees (2)

Mathematical Sciences

University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill

1976 to 1980

Masters in Business Administration

Stanford Graduate School of Business

1982 to 1984

Presentations

Presentations (2)

Reducing Investment Losses in the Next Downturn

Ken Frier and Gretchen Tai review the mainstream approaches that investors use for downside risk management, indicating the pros/cons of each. Then show how a blend of the ideas within the mainstream strategies leads to much better outcomes than any of those strategies on their own. This talk is based on a whitepaper published by the speakers.

Improving the "Endowment Model" Recipe

Ken Frier, the former Stanford University Chief Investment Officer, and Gretchen Tai, the former Hewlett-Packard CIO, discuss ways to improve on the mainstream "endowment model" of portfolio management. This talk is based on a whitepaper published by the speakers, and applicable to all investors.